Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 19
“After the two children had cut the face of the earth with the stone war knife, they rode on the magic shield to the lowest cave where men lived.
Who acts: children, men · What happens: cut, ride, live · To what, where: two children, magic shield
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 (children, men), 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 | _ | 20 rode | punct |
| 2 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 children | nummod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | aux |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 rode | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 face | det |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 knife | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knife | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knife | compound |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knife | compound |
| 17 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 earth | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rode | nsubj |
| 20 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 shield | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shield | det |
| 23 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shield | amod |
| 24 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rode | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 cave | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cave | det |
| 27 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 cave | amod |
| 28 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shield | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 lived | advmod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lived | nsubj |
| 31 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cave | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut in a quote | past · perfect · passive | the two children | the face of the earth with the stone war knife obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary face=Product | ||||
| 2 | ride in a quote | past | children = child | the magic shield to the lowest cave | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | past | men | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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