Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 25
She may live in the top of the pine tree or in the heart of a flower.
Who acts: young brave · What happens: live · To what, where: top
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 live | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | aux |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 heart | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 flower | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flower | det |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | may | young brave = brave | the top of the pine tree or the heart of a flower | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=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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