Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 7
A great mountain of copper stood there, and it was in the middle of the water.
Who acts: great mountain, mountain · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: middle
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great mountain, mountain), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountain | amod |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 copper | case |
| 5 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mountain | nmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 middle | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 middle | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 middle | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 middle | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a great mountain of copper | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mountain | the middle | of the water | 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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