Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 19
The gray rabbits put their ears very far back and ran away.
Who acts: gray rabbits · What happens: put, run away · To what, where: ears
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), 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 | 3 rabbits | det |
| 2 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rabbits | compound |
| 3 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 back | advmod |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | the gray rabbits | face's ears | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | the gray rabbits not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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