Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 2
In the Southland, flat upon the ground, lies the spirit of the south wind.
What happens: lie · To what, where: spirit, Southland
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Southland | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Southland | det |
| 3 | Southland | Southland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flat | punct |
| 5 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Southland | amod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Southland | punct |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 15 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wind | compound |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spirit | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the spirit of the south wind | the Southland | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spirit=Theme |
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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