Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 32
Beside her stood a tall brave with green feathers in his hair.
What happens: stand
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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brave | det |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brave | amod |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 feathers | case |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feathers | amod |
| 9 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brave | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hair | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feathers | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | beside Leelinaw; brave property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=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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