Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 34
The girl trembled like a leaf on a tree.
What happens: tremble · To what, where: girl, tree
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 girl | acl |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 leaf | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leaf | det |
| 6 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the girl not said here | a tree | like a leaf | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=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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