Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 5

An old chief sat in this teepee; his hair was like the icicles that hang from dead pine-tree branches; he was very old.

Who acts: old chief, hair, icicles, teepee · What happens: sit, be, hang · To what, where: teepee, dead tree branches

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 (old chief, hair, icicles, teepee), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chief	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chief	amod
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 teepee	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 teepee	det
7	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 icicles	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 icicles	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 icicles	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 icicles	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 icicles	det
14	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hang	nsubj
16	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 icicles	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	22 branches	case
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 branches	amod
19	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 pine	punct
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 branches	compound
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hang	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 old	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 old	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 old	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 old	advmod
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a old chief	this teepee		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in teepee=Location
2	is	past	teepee's hair		like the icicles	tree rules
3	hang	present	the icicles	dead tree branches		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	teepee		old property	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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 5