Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 17
The marten was seen by the gray rabbits to brush his fur and wash his face and paws very carefully.
Who acts: gray rabbits, marten · What happens: see, brush, wash · To what, where: marten, fur, face
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gray rabbits, marten), 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 marten | det |
| 2 | marten | marten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 rabbits | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rabbits | det |
| 7 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rabbits | compound |
| 8 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seen | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 brush | mark |
| 10 | brush | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fur | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brush | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wash | cc |
| 14 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 brush | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wash | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 paws | cc |
| 18 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 face | conj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 carefully | advmod |
| 20 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 wash | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | the gray rabbits | the marten | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | brush | to-infinitive | the marten not said here | marten's fur | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fur=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | the marten not said here | marten's face and paws | carefully property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
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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