Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 35
Then they could see her no more, but two tall pines stood in the place where she and the brave had been resting.
Who acts: Indians, two tall pines, Leelinaw · What happens: see, stand, rest · To what, where: Leelinaw, place
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: who acts (Indians, two tall pines, Leelinaw), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pines | nummod |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pines | amod |
| 12 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 resting | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 resting | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 resting | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brave | det |
| 21 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 resting | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 resting | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 resting | aux |
| 24 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Indians = indian | Leelinaw | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | two tall pines | the place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | rest | past · perfect · progressive | Leelinaw | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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