Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 18
The shield was a net of cotton cords on a hoop of wood, and the last gift, a great magic war knife of flint, was fastened to the center of the shield.
Who acts: shield · What happens: be, fasten · To what, where: net
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 (shield), 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 shield | det |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 net | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 net | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 net | det |
| 5 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cords | case |
| 7 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cords | compound |
| 8 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 net | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hoop | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hoop | det |
| 11 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cords | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hoop | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gift | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gift | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gift | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gift | amod |
| 18 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 net | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knife | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 knife | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 knife | amod |
| 22 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knife | compound |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knife | compound |
| 24 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gift | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 flint | case |
| 26 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knife | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fastened | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fastened | aux:pass |
| 29 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 net | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 center | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 center | det |
| 32 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fastened | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 shield | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 shield | det |
| 35 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 center | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 net | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the shield | a net and the last gift a great magic war knife of flint | of cotton cords on a hoop of wood; the last gift a great magic war knife of flint conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fasten | past · passive | to the center of the shield | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: to center=Co-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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