Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 32
They fell down and tried to hide in the sand, they were so hot.
Who acts: men · What happens: fall down, try, hide, be · To what, where: sand
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tried | cc |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hide | mark |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sand | det |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hot | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hot | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hot | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 hot | advmod |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | men = man | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | men = man not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | the sand | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | men = man | hot property | tree rules |
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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