Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 15
Shawondasee heaved a number of warm sighs, and as the pleasant south breezes reached the maiden the air seemed filled with tiny feathers.
Who acts: Shawondasee, pleasant south breezes · What happens: heave, reach, fill · To what, where: number, maiden, air
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, pleasant south breezes), 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 | Shawondasee | Shawondasee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heaved | nsubj |
| 2 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heaved | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sighs | case |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sighs | amod |
| 7 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 breezes | det |
| 12 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breezes | amod |
| 13 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breezes | compound |
| 14 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heaved | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 filled | aux:pass |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 reached | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 feathers | case |
| 23 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feathers | amod |
| 24 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 filled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | past | Shawondasee | a number of warm sighs | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the pleasant south breezes | the maiden | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | the air | with tiny feathers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with feather=Instrument |
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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