Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 45
Seeds from thistle and the milkweed are filling the air with their downy carriers.
Who acts: Seeds · What happens: fill · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seeds), 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 | Seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filling | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 thistle | case |
| 3 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeds | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 milkweed | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 milkweed | det |
| 6 | milkweed | milkweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thistle | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 filling | aux |
| 8 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filling | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 carriers | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 carriers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | downy | downy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 carriers | amod |
| 14 | carriers | carrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filling | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present · progressive | Seeds from thistle and the milkweed | the air | with Seeds's downy carriers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with carrier=Instrument |
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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