Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 19
“The red man fell before the Fire Spirit like the leaves of the forest before the fierce wind.
Who acts: red man · What happens: fall · To what, where: Fire Spirit
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 Spirit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Spirit | det |
| 8 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Spirit | compound |
| 9 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 leaves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaves | det |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaves | nmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 wind | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 18 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wind | amod |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | past | the red man | the Fire Spirit | before the fierce wind | like the leaves of the forest | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before spirit=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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