Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 11
But another morning when he opened his sleepy eyes and looked, the yellow locks on the maiden’s head were changed to fleecy white.
Who acts: Shawondasee · What happens: open, look, change · To what, where: sleepy eyes, yellow locks
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XX. the Prairie Dandelion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shawondasee), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 opened | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 changed | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 locks | det |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 locks | amod |
| 15 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 changed | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 maiden | case |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 locks | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 changed | aux:pass |
| 22 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 looked | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 white | case |
| 24 | fleecy | fleecy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 white | amod |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 changed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Shawondasee | Shawondasee's sleepy eyes | morning | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | Shawondasee not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | change | past · passive | the yellow locks on the maiden's head | to fleecy white | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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