Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 21
“The priests prayed to the Sun-children for help in the darkness.
Who acts: priests · What happens: pray
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 (priests), 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 | _ | 4 prayed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priests | det |
| 3 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prayed | nsubj |
| 4 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 children | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prayed | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prayed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 darkness | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 darkness | det |
| 14 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | past | the priests | to the Sun children; for help in the darkness | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for help=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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