Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 5

The winters were not cold; it was always like the Strawberry Moon, for the days were warm and the nights were not cold.

Who acts: winters, food, days, nights · What happens: not be, be

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 (winters, food, days, nights), 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 winters	det
2	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cold	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 Moon	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Moon	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Moon	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 Moon	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 Moon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
12	Strawberry	Strawberry	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Moon	compound
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cold	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 warm	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 warm	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 days	det
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 warm	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 warm	cop
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cold	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nights	det
22	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cold	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cold	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 cold	advmod
25	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 warm	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the winters	cold property	tree rules
2	is	past	food	like the Strawberry Moon; always property	tree rules
3	is	past	the days	warm property	tree rules
4	not is	past	the nights	cold property	tree rules

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 5