Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 10
“First put the collar around my neck, then I will tell you,” said the bird.
Who acts: bird · What happens: put, tell, say · To what, where: collar, neck, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 collar | det |
| 5 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 tell | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | infinitive | the collar | my neck | first property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent collar=Theme around neck=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the bird = bird | you | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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