Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 13

They said the stars were the homes of those who had walked across the starry Bridge of Souls.

Who acts: Indians, stars · What happens: say, be, walk · To what, where: homes, starry Bridge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, stars), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stars	det
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 homes	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 homes	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 homes	det
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 those	case
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 homes	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 walked	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walked	aux
12	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 those	acl:relcl
13	across	across	ADP	_	16 Bridge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bridge	det
15	starry	starry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Bridge	amod
16	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 walked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Souls	case
18	Souls	Soul	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 Bridge	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Indians = indian				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the stars	the homes		of those	tree rules
3	walk	past · perfect			the starry Bridge of Souls	who nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across bridge=Trajectory

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 13