Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 30
At the door of this lodge stood an old chief with hair like the snow on the mountain.
What happens: stand · To what, where: old chief, door
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lodge | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lodge | det |
| 6 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chief | amod |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hair | case |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chief | nmod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 snow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snow | det |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a old chief | the door of this lodge | with hair; like the snow; on the mountain | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chief=Theme at door=Destination |
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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