Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 35
“The Sun-children led the people over the quaking earth to the east, where the Sun-father had his home.
Who acts: Sun children, Sun father · What happens: lead, quake, have · To what, where: people, quaking earth, home
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 (Sun children, Sun father), 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 | _ | 6 led | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 children | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sun | punct |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 led | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 led | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 11 | quaking | quake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 earth | amod |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 east | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 east | det |
| 15 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 earth | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 had | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 father | det |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 father | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sun | punct |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 earth | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 home | nmod:poss |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in a quote | past | the Sun children | the people | the quaking earth to the east | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme over earth=Destination | |||
| 2 | quake in a quote | gerund | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | the Sun father | father's home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
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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