Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 22
The Girl who became a Pine Tree 147 XXIV.
Who acts: Girl · What happens: become · To what, where: Girl
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girl), 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 | 2 Girl | det |
| 2 | Girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Girl | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Tree | det |
| 6 | Pine | Pine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tree | compound |
| 7 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 8 | 147 | 147 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Tree | list |
| 9 | XXIV | XXIV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 147 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Girl | a Pine Tree xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/3/22/