Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 17
A young brave had a dream about the star, and he believed his dream.
Who acts: young brave, war · What happens: have, believe, dream · To what, where: dream
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 (young brave, war), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brave | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | amod |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 star | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 star | det |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dream | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 believed | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 believed | nsubj |
| 13 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dream | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 believed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a young brave | a dream | about the star | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | |||
| 2 | believe | past | war | war's dream | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dream | war | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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