Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 29
The star came lower and made the village very light, then hid herself in the white rose on the mountain.
Who acts: star · What happens: come, make, hide · To what, where: village, young brave, white rose
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 (star), 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 | 2 star | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 light | advmod |
| 10 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hid | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hid | advmod |
| 13 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 hid | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 rose | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rose | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rose | amod |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hid | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 mountain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountain | det |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hid | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the star | low property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the star not said here | the village | light property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset village=Product | |||
| 3 | hide | past | the star not said here | young brave = brave | the white rose | then | on the mountain | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in rose=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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