Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 47
While Wahkandee slept the wigwam was lifted from its place and it floated away.
Who acts: Wahkandee, wigwam · What happens: sleep, lift, float away · To what, where: wigwam, place
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, wigwam), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 slept | mark |
| 2 | Wahkandee | Wahkandee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wigwam | det |
| 5 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | aux:pass |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 floated | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 floated | nsubj |
| 13 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 floated | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | Wahkandee | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lift | past · passive | the wigwam | wigwam's place | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | float away | past | wigwam | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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