Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 22
Wahkandee followed the flying moccasins over rocks, roots, and crumbling stones.
Who acts: Wahkandee · What happens: follow, fly, crumble · To what, where: flying moccasins, rocks, stones
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), 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 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moccasins | det |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 moccasins | amod |
| 5 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 followed | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 rocks | case |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 followed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roots | punct |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rocks | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crumbling | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crumbling | cc |
| 12 | crumbling | crumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 followed | advcl |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crumbling | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Wahkandee | the flying moccasins | rocks and roots | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent moccasin=Theme over rock=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | crumble | gerund | Wahkandee not said here | stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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