Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 21
At last a little color was seen in the east again.
What happens: see · To what, where: last little color
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 color | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 color | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 color | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 color | amod |
| 5 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 east | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 east | det |
| 10 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a last little color | again | in the east | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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