Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 13
Wahkandee reached down to take the moccasins, but they slipped away from his fingers.
Who acts: Wahkandee, moccasins · What happens: reach down, take, slip away · To what, where: moccasins
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wahkandee, moccasins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wahkandee | Wahkandee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 reached | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 reached | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moccasins | det |
| 7 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipped | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 slipped | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slipped | nsubj |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 slipped | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 fingers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slipped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach down | past | Wahkandee | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Wahkandee not said here | the moccasins | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moccasin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slip away | past | moccasins = moccasin | from Wahkandee's fingers; away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from finger=Co-Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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