Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 23
He tried to eat like the rabbit and watched his mouth.
Who acts: marten · What happens: try, eat, watch · To what, where: mouth
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 eat | mark |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 rabbit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rabbit | det |
| 7 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 watched | cc |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | marten | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | marten not said here | like the rabbit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | marten not said here | marten's mouth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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