Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 20
Whirling, floating, dancing, they took their places in the sky, where every one may see them.
Who acts: boys, one · What happens: whirl, float, dance, take, see · To what, where: places, sky, boys
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, one), 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 | Whirling | whirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 floating | punct |
| 3 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Whirling | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dancing | punct |
| 5 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Whirling | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whirling | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 places | nmod:poss |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 see | advmod |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 took | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl | gerund | boys = boy not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | float | gerund | boys = boy not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | boys = boy not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | boys = boy | boys's places | the sky | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in sky=Location | |||
| 5 | see | may | every one | boys = boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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