Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 14
They were like a field of lilies.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 field | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 field | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lilies | case |
| 7 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 field | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 field | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sisters = sister | like a field; of lilies | 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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