Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 22
“In the morning the young Navajo stepped on the white sand.
Who acts: young Navajo · What happens: step · To what, where: white sand
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 (young Navajo), 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 | _ | 8 stepped | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Navajo | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Navajo | amod |
| 7 | Navajo | Navajo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | nsubj |
| 8 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sand | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sand | amod |
| 12 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step in a quote | past | the young Navajo | the white sand | morning | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory |
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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