Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 23
The dish is struck against the nearest object with a sharp blow.
What happens: strike · To what, where: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dish | det |
| 2 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | aux:pass |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 object | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 object | det |
| 7 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 object | amod |
| 8 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 blow | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blow | amod |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 object | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · passive | the dish | against the nearest object with a sharp blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument against object=Patient |
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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