Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 49
The magic moccasins had changed into the maidens.
What happens: change · To what, where: magic moccasins, maidens
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 moccasins | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moccasins | amod |
| 3 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 changed | aux |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 maidens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maidens | det |
| 8 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 changed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect · passive | the magic moccasins | into the maidens result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into maiden=Result |
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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