Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 37
The star saw her shadow and the shadows of her sky sisters in the water, and she rested like a canoe upon the water.
Who acts: star, breeze · What happens: see, rest, shadow · To what, where: shadow, water, sky sisters
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 star | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shadows | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shadows | det |
| 8 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shadow | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sisters | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sisters | compound |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shadows | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sisters | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rested | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rested | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rested | nsubj |
| 19 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 canoe | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 canoe | det |
| 22 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rested | obl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rested | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the star | breeze's shadow and the shadows of breeze's sky sisters in the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rest | past | breeze | the water | like a canoe | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon water=Location | |||
| 3 | shadow | breeze | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | shadow | breeze's sky sisters in the water | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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