Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 2
On the shores of Gitchee Gumee, the Big Sea Water, were many forests.
What happens: be · To what, where: many forests, shores
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 shores | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shores | det |
| 3 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forests | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gitchee | case |
| 5 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shores | nmod |
| 6 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gitchee | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Water | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Water | det |
| 9 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sea | compound |
| 10 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Water | compound |
| 11 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gitchee | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shores | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forests | cop |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forests | amod |
| 15 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 forests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | many forests | the shores of Gitchee and the Sea Water | tree rules |
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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