Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 48
The stump stretched out its arms and became a great manitou.
What happens: stretch out, become · To what, where: stump, great manitou
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stretched | det |
| 2 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 manitou | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 manitou | amod |
| 11 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | participle · passive | stump | stump's arms obj | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient arm=Result | ||||
| 2 | become | past | a great manitou | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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