Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 18
They watched him go into the white rabbit’s brush heap.
Who acts: face, marten · What happens: watch, go · To what, where: marten, brush heap
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 (face, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 watched | xcomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 heap | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rabbit | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rabbit | amod |
| 8 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heap | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 rabbit | case |
| 10 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heap | compound |
| 11 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | face | marten | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | marten not said here | the white rabbit's brush heap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heap=Initial_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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