Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 8
The birds could all sing, and there was much music.
Who acts: birds, much music · What happens: sing, 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 (birds, much music), 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 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sing | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 sing | advmod |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sing | conj |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 music | amod |
| 11 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | could | the birds | all property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | much music | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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