Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 33
She loved his voice, for it was like the wind in the pine trees.
Who acts: girl, voice · What happens: love, be · To what, where: voice, pine trees
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, voice), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 voice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wind | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 wind | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wind | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wind | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 wind | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 14 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trees | compound |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wind | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | girl | Earth's voice | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | voice | the pine trees | for the wind | tree rules |
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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