Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 38
The next morning the lake was covered with water lilies.
What happens: cover · To what, where: next morning
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: 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 covered | aux:pass |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lilies | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lilies | compound |
| 10 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covered | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the next morning | with water lilies; the lake nsubj:pass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with lily=Theme |
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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