Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 33
Her hair was like the blackest feathers of a crow, and it was so long that it was like a blanket over her shoulders.
Who acts: hair · What happens: be · To what, where: shoulders
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. Legend of the Arbutus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feathers | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feathers | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 feathers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feathers | det |
| 6 | blackest | black | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 feathers | amod |
| 7 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 crow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crow | det |
| 10 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feathers | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 long | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 long | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 long | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feathers | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 blanket | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 blanket | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 blanket | cop |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 blanket | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 blanket | det |
| 22 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 long | advcl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 shoulders | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 blanket | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feathers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Menabozho's hair | like the blackest feathers; of a crow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | hair | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | hair | Menabozho's shoulders | like a blanket | 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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