Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 44
The waters stand still; the leaves fall and die.”
Who acts: waters, leaves · What happens: stand, fall, die
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 (waters, leaves), 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 | 2 waters | det |
| 2 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stand | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 fall | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leaves | det |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fall | nsubj |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 die | cc |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fall | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the waters | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | the leaves | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | present | the leaves not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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