Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 9
One day, while looking toward the prairies of the north, he saw a beautiful girl with yellow hair standing on the plains in the west.
Who acts: One day, Shawondasee, yellow hair · What happens: look, see, stand · To what, where: beautiful girl, plains
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 (One day, Shawondasee, yellow hair), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 looking | mark |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 prairies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prairies | det |
| 8 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 north | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 north | det |
| 11 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prairies | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hair | case |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hair | amod |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 hair | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 plains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plains | det |
| 24 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 standing | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 west | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 west | det |
| 27 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plains | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | One day not said here | toward the prairies of the north | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward prairie=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Shawondasee | a beautiful girl | day | with yellow hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | stand | gerund | yellow hair not said here | the plains in the west | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location |
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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