Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 47

Peboan said: “I shake my hair, and the snow falls on the mountains, like the feathers of Waubese, the great white swan.”

Who acts: Peboan, snow · What happens: say, shake, fall · To what, where: hair, mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Peboan, snow), 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	Peboan	Peboan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 shake	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 shake	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 shake	nsubj
6	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shake	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 falls	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 falls	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 falls	nsubj
13	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shake	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 mountains	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mountains	det
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 falls	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feathers	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 feathers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feathers	det
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 falls	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Waubese	case
22	Waubese	Waubese	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 feathers	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swan	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 swan	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 swan	amod
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 swan	amod
27	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Waubese	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Peboan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shake in a quote	present	Peboan	my hair			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	fall in a quote	present	the snow		the mountains	like the feathers of Waubese	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 47