Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 22
These black and red stones are put into a large shallow dish of clay or metal.
What happens: put · To what, where: black stones, large shallow dish
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games. 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 stones | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stones | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 red | cc |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 black | conj |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 dish | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dish | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dish | amod |
| 11 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dish | amod |
| 12 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 clay | case |
| 14 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dish | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 metal | cc |
| 16 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clay | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | this black stones | a large shallow dish of clay or metal | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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