Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 74
Oweenee became like the lily again just as the lodge rested on the Evening Star.
Who acts: Oweenee · What happens: become, rest · To what, where: lodge, Evening Star
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 (Oweenee), 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 | Oweenee | Oweenee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 lily | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lily | det |
| 5 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 became | advmod |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 lodge | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 lodge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lodge | det |
| 10 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 11 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lodge | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Star | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Star | det |
| 14 | Evening | Evening | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Star | compound |
| 15 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rested | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Oweenee | the lodge | again | like the lily | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | rest | participle | the lodge not said here | the Evening Star | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on star=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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