Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 39
“The night stars have blossomed,” said the little children.
Who acts: little children · What happens: blossom, say · To what, where: night stars · 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 (little children), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blossomed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stars | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stars | compound |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blossomed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blossomed | aux |
| 6 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blossomed | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blossomed | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | amod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blossom in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the night stars | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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