Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 10
“She left the room, but came back with a great pearl dish in her hand.
Who acts: wife · What happens: leave, come back · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Navajo Medicine Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dish | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dish | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dish | amod |
| 13 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dish | compound |
| 14 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dish | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past | wife | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come back in a quote | past | wife not said here | with a great pearl dish in wife's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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