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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 58

He saw no one, but a beautiful canoe of shining white stone was tied to a rock at his feet, and a shining paddle lay in it.

Who acts: rabbit, beautiful canoe, shining paddle · What happens: see, shine, tie, lie · To what, where: one, white stone, beautiful canoe, canoe

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: who acts (rabbit, beautiful canoe, shining paddle), 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

nsubjdetobjpunctccdetamodnsubj:passmarkaclamodobjaux:passconjcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccdetamodnsubjparataxiscaseoblpunctrootHePRONsawVERBnoDEToneNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJaDETbeautifulADJcanoeNOUNofSCONJshiningVERBwhiteADJstoneNOUNwasAUXtiedVERBtoADPaDETrockNOUNatADPhisPRONfeetNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETshiningVERBpaddleNOUNlayVERBinADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 sawnsubj
2sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3nonoDETPronType=Neg4 onedet
4oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing2 sawobj
5,,PUNCT_15 tiedpunct
6butbutCCONJ_15 tiedcc
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 canoedet
8beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos9 canoeamod
9canoecanoeNOUNNumber=Sing15 tiednsubj:pass
10ofofSCONJ_11 shiningmark
11shiningshineVERBVerbForm=Ger9 canoeacl
12whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos13 stoneamod
13stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing11 shiningobj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 tiedaux:pass
15tiedtieVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 sawconj
16totoADP_18 rockcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 rockdet
18rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing15 tiedobl
19atatADP_21 feetcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 feetnmod:poss
21feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur18 rocknmod
22,,PUNCT_27 laypunct
23andandCCONJ_27 laycc
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 paddledet
25shiningshineVERBVerbForm=Ger26 paddleamod
26paddlepaddleNOUNNumber=Sing27 laynsubj
27laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sawparataxis
28ininADP_29 itcase
29ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 layobl
30..PUNCT_2 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastrabbitno onevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2shinegerunda beautiful canoe not said herewhite stonevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3tiepast · passivea beautiful canoeto a rock at rabbit's feetvn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to rock=Co-Patient
4shinegerundvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5liepasta shining paddlecanoevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=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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