Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 20
If the sky was mottled and it was springtime, that was the best sign possible.
Who acts: sky, that · What happens: mottle, be · To what, where: sky, springtime, best sign
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, that), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 mottled | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sky | det |
| 3 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mottled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mottled | aux:pass |
| 5 | mottled | mottle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 springtime | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 springtime | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 springtime | cop |
| 9 | springtime | springtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mottled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sign | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 sign | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sign | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sign | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 sign | amod |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 springtime | appos |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sign | amod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mottled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mottle | past · passive | the sky | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | sky | springtime | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | the best sign | tree rules |
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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