Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 36
At this they stared open-eyed, for it contained nothing that any one could eat.
Who acts: words, case, one · What happens: stare, contain, eat · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, case, one), 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 | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stared | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyed | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 7 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stared | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 contained | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 contained | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 contained | nsubj |
| 11 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 contained | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | aux |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | words = word | at this; eyed property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | contain | past | case | nothing | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | could | any one | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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