Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 29
Osseo is like the pine that the lightning has torn and burned.
Who acts: Osseo · What happens: be, tear, burn · To what, where: that
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 (Osseo), 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 | Osseo | Osseo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pine | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pine | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 pine | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pine | det |
| 5 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lightning | det |
| 8 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 torn | aux |
| 10 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pine | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 burned | cc |
| 12 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 torn | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Osseo | like the pine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | present · perfect · passive | that | the lightning nsubj:pass | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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