Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn, sentence 64
Two green feathers were waving in the air above the little hill he had made.
Who acts: Two green feathers, feather · What happens: wave, make · To what, where: little hill
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two green feathers, feather), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 feathers | nummod |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feathers | amod |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waving | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waving | aux |
| 5 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waving | obl |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hill | amod |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 air | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 hill | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past · progressive | Two green feathers | in the air above the little hill | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | feather | the little hill not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Product |
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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