Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 29

The red man fell before the fire-water like the green leaves of the forest before the storm wind.

Who acts: red man · What happens: fall · To what, where: fire water

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	9 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fire	punct
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaves	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leaves	amod
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	nmod
17	before	before	ADP	_	20 wind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wind	det
19	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wind	compound
20	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the red man			the fire water	before the storm wind	like the green leaves of the forest	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before water=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 29