Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 7

She came very often to sit in their dark shadows and hear their leaves whisper to the blue water.

Who acts: Leelinaw, leaves, trees · What happens: come, sit, hear, whisper, shadow · To what, where: dark shadows, blue water · 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 (Leelinaw, leaves, trees), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 often	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 shadows	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shadows	nmod:poss
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shadows	amod
10	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sit	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
12	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 leaves	nmod:poss
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 whisper	nsubj
15	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
18	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whisper	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Leelinaw			often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	to-infinitive	Leelinaw not said here		trees's dark shadows		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shadow=Location
3	hear	present	Leelinaw not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	whisper speech: assert	present	trees's leaves	the blue water			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to water=Recipient
5	shadow		trees = tree				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 7