Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 18

It seemed as if the star came to him in his sleep and looked like a white maiden.

Who acts: It, star, war · What happens: seem, come, look, sleep · To what, where: war, sleep

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 (It, star, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nmod:poss
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 maiden	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 maiden	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maiden	amod
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the star	war	war's sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	look	past				like a white maiden	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sleep		war				nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 18