Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 33
There was only the moose head left.
Who acts: moose head · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: moose head
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moose 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 head | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 5 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | compound |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 head | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the moose head | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | the moose head not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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