Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 36
They feared it would go back to the sky, but a soft breeze floated it over a lake.
Who acts: men, rise, soft breeze · What happens: fear, go back, float · To what, where: rise, lake · 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 (men, rise, soft breeze), 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 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feared | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 floated | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 floated | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 breeze | det |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breeze | amod |
| 14 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floated | nsubj |
| 15 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 feared | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 floated | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 lake | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | men = man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go back | would | rise | to the sky result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sky=Result | ||||
| 3 | float | past | a soft breeze | rise | a lake | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over lake=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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