Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 13
The loon put down his head and went through the deep water, but it was too deep even for the great loon-bird.
Who acts: loon, head · What happens: put down, go, be · To what, where: head, deep water
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. Story of the Deluge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loon, head), 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 loon | det |
| 2 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deep | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 deep | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 deep | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 deep | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 deep | advmod |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | parataxis |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 bird | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 bird | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bird | amod |
| 23 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bird | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 loon | punct |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deep | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | the loon | loon's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the loon not said here | the deep water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | head | for the great loon bird; deep property | tree rules |
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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