Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 29
“The two Sun-children cut their way through the cave above them, and led the people out upon the earth.
Who acts: two Sun children · What happens: cut, lead out · To what, where: way, cave, people, earth
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 (two Sun children), 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 | _ | 7 cut | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 children | nummod |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 children | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sun | punct |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | nsubj |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cave | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 led | cc |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 led | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 led | advmod |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut in a quote | present | the two Sun children | children's way | the cave above caves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | |||
| 2 | lead out in a quote | past | the people | the earth | out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme upon earth=Destination |
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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