Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 33

The father rushed into the lodge, but as he touched his boy the lad changed into a bird and flew out of the open doorway.

Who acts: father, lad · What happens: rush, touch, change, fly out · To what, where: lodge, boy, open doorway

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, lad), 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	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushed	nsubj
3	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 lodge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lodge	det
6	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 changed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 changed	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 touched	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touched	nsubj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 changed	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 boy	nmod:poss
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touched	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lad	det
15	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	nsubj
16	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	parataxis
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 bird	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flew	cc
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 changed	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	26 doorway	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 doorway	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 doorway	det
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 doorway	amod
26	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flew	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rush	past	the father		into the lodge result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lodge=Result
2	touch	past	father	father's boy		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme
3	change	past	the lad		into a bird result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bird=Result
4	fly out	past	the lad not said here	the open doorway		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorway=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 33