Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 5
Near by was an Indian village of many teepees; in one teepee lived Leelinaw with her father and mother.
Who acts: one teepee · What happens: be, live · To what, where: Indian village, Leelinaw
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 (one teepee), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 village | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 village | amod |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 teepees | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 teepees | amod |
| 9 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 village | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 teepee | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 teepee | nummod |
| 13 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Leelinaw | Leelinaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mother | cc |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 father | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a Indian village | of many teepees | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | one teepee | Leelinaw | with Leelinaw's father and mother | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme leelinaw=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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