Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 12
When they saw the power of the sun in bringing life out of the earth in the shape of growing plants from hidden seeds, then the sun seemed like a living spirit to them.
Who acts: Indians, shape, sun · What happens: see, bring, grow, hide, seem · To what, where: power, life, earth, plants, hidden seeds
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, shape, sun), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 power | det |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 power | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 bringing | mark |
| 10 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | advcl |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bringing | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bringing | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 shape | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shape | det |
| 18 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 earth | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 growing | mark |
| 20 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 shape | acl |
| 21 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 growing | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 seeds | case |
| 23 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 seeds | amod |
| 24 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 growing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seemed | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 seemed | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun | det |
| 28 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seemed | nsubj |
| 29 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 spirit | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 spirit | det |
| 32 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spirit | compound |
| 33 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seemed | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 spirit | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Indians = indian | the power of the sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | life | the earth in the shape | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent life=Theme out earth=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | grow | gerund | the shape not said here | plants | hidden seeds | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent plant=Product from seed=Material | |||
| 4 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | seem | past | the sun | then | like a living spirit to Indians | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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