Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 34
One morning the door was shut, and a strange white canoe was in the water.
Who acts: door, strange white canoe · What happens: be · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, strange white canoe), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shut | cop |
| 6 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 water | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 water | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 canoe | det |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 canoe | amod |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 canoe | amod |
| 12 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 water | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 water | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the door | morning | shut property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | a strange white canoe | the water | 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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