Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 13
One gift was a painted bow that reached from one end of the sky to the farther end.
Who acts: One gift, painted bow · What happens: paint, be, reach · To what, where: painted bow, one end
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One gift, painted bow), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 gift | nummod |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bow | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bow | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bow | det |
| 5 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bow | amod |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 end | nummod |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 end | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 17 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 end | amod |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | One gift | a painted bow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | a painted bow | from one end of the sky; to the farther end | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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