Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 9
A loon flew over his head and then dived into the great water.
Who acts: loon · What happens: fly, dive · To what, where: head, great 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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 loon | det |
| 2 | loon | loon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 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 flew | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dived | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 dived | advmod |
| 9 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dived | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a loon | water's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location | ||||
| 2 | dive | past | a loon not said here | the great water | then | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location |
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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