Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 32
The girl untied the strings that fastened her door, and looking up she saw a very tall chief with feathers in his scalp lock.
Who acts: girl, strings · What happens: untie, fasten, look up, see · To what, where: strings, door, tall chief, scalp lock
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, strings), 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 | 3 untied | nsubj |
| 3 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 strings | det |
| 5 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 untied | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fastened | nsubj |
| 7 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strings | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 door | nmod:poss |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fastened | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 looking | compound:prt |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 untied | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 tall | advmod |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chief | amod |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 feathers | case |
| 21 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chief | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 lock | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lock | nmod:poss |
| 24 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lock | compound |
| 25 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | the girl | the strings | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past | the strings | girl's door | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | girl not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | girl | a tall chief | Earth's scalp lock | with feathers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus |
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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