Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 81
The shining lodge of Osseo and Oweenee followed them and was fastened on a high hill far out in the big lake.
Who acts: shining lodge · What happens: shine, follow, fasten · To what, where: things
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 (shining lodge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lodge | det |
| 2 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lodge | amod |
| 3 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Osseo | case |
| 5 | Osseo | Osseo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lodge | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Oweenee | cc |
| 7 | Oweenee | Oweenee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Osseo | conj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fastened | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fastened | aux:pass |
| 12 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 followed | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hill | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hill | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hill | amod |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fastened | obl |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 out | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 fastened | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lake | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lake | amod |
| 22 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fastened | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | follow | past | the shining lodge of Osseo and Oweenee | things = thing | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fasten | past · passive | the shining lodge of Osseo and Oweenee not said here | in the big lake; on a high hill; out property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: on hill=Co-Patient |
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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