Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 41
Come,” and again they moved through the air like birds.
Who acts: you, arrows · What happens: come, move · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, arrows), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moved | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 moved | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 moved | nsubj |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 birds | case |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moved | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move in a quote | past | arrows = arrow | the air | again | like birds | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through air=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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