Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 27
The white wigwam rested on the stump of a great pine tree.
What happens: rest · To what, where: white wigwam, stump
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. 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 wigwam | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wigwam | amod |
| 3 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wigwam | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stump | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stump | det |
| 7 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rested | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 11 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stump | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wigwam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | participle | the white wigwam not said here | the stump of a great pine tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stump=Location |
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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