Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 12
A girl stood by him dressed in shining clothes, and her face was like the one he had seen in the moon.
Who acts: girl, face · What happens: stand, dress, shine, be, see · To what, where: shining clothes, one, moon
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, face), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 8 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 dressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 moon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moon | det |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a girl | by boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | a girl not said here | shining clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | girl's face | like the one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | face | the one not said here | the moon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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