Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 29

The rank prairie grass is usually easy for them to get, but sometimes it is burned off.

Who acts: rank prairie grass, babies · What happens: be, get, burn off · To what, where: grass

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rank prairie grass, babies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
2	rank	rank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
3	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grass	compound
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 get	mark
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burned	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 burned	cc
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 burned	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burned	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 burned	aux:pass
17	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 easy	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 burned	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rank prairie grass		easy, usually property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	babies = baby			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	burn off	present · passive		grass	sometimes property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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, The Indian At Home, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 29