Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 31
“Men covered their faces with their hands, for the light made them blind.
Who acts: Men, light · What happens: cover, make · To what, where: faces, men
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, light), 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 | _ | 3 covered | punct |
| 2 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | nsubj |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 faces | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover in a quote | past | Men | men's faces | with men's hands | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | the light | men = man | blind property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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