Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 40

They did so, and the pine leaves sang sweet songs to them, but the parents thought it was only the summer wind.

Who acts: gifts, pine, parents, thing · What happens: do, leave, sing, think, be · To what, where: sweet songs, gifts, summer wind · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gifts, pine, parents, thing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leaves	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pine	det
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	nsubj
8	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 leaves	ccomp
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 songs	amod
11	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sang	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sang	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parents	det
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wind	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wind	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 wind	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wind	compound
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thought	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	gifts = gift			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	the pine			tree rules
3	sing speech: express	past	the pine not said here	sweet songs	gifts = gift	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to they=Recipient
4	think speech: other	past	the parents			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	thing	the summer wind		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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 40