Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 12

It is like a scene in Asia to see them gathered at evening about the springs at the foot of the mesa.

Who acts: water, women · What happens: be, see, gather · To what, where: Asia, women

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, women), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scene	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scene	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 scene	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scene	det
5	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Asia	case
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 scene	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scene	acl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 see	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 evening	case
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gathered	obl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 springs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 springs	det
16	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 evening	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 foot	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foot	det
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 springs	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mesa	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mesa	det
22	mesa	mesa	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foot	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scene	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	water		Asia		like a scene	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		women = woman				tree rules
3	gather	participle	women = woman not said here			evening		vn herd-47.5.2 «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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 12