Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 33
His heart is drowned in the fire-water.”
What happens: drown · To what, where: heart, 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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drowned | aux:pass |
| 4 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | 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 drowned | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drowned | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | present · passive | Spirit's heart | the fire water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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