Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 28
Men sought the priests and prayed them to find some way to help them.
Who acts: Men · What happens: seek, pray, find, help · To what, where: priests, way
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 (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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priests | det |
| 4 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sought | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 prayed | cc |
| 6 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sought | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 prayed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prayed | advcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 way | acl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Men | the priests | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pray | past | Men not said here | priests = priest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Men not said here | some way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Men not said here | priests = priest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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