Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 9
The wind tried to pull the tall tree away, but the little tree held it tight, and the branches made a noise like something alive.
Who acts: wind, little tree, branches · What happens: try, pull, hold, make · To what, where: tall tree, wind, noise
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 (wind, little tree, branches), 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 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pull | mark |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 pull | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | obj |
| 17 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 15 held | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 branches | det |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 noise | det |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 something | case |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 made | obl |
| 27 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 something | amod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the wind | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wind not said here | the tall tree | away property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | past | the little tree | wind | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | the branches | a noise | like something | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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