Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 9
There was good fishing in these waters, and their wigwam stayed there all the summer.
Who acts: good fishing, wigwam · What happens: be, stay
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good fishing, wigwam), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fishing | amod |
| 4 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 waters | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 waters | det |
| 7 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fishing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stayed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stayed | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | nsubj |
| 12 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stayed | advmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 summer | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 summer | det |
| 16 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | good fishing in this waters | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | waters's wigwam | there | summer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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