Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 51
One was turned toward the east, and one toward the west.
What happens: turn · To what, where: One, east
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | aux:pass |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 east | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 east | det |
| 6 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 west | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 west | det |
| 12 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | One | the east | one toward the west parataxis | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme toward east=Trajectory |
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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