Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 36
“The Sun-children were told to dry the earth.
Who acts: Sun children · What happens: tell, dry · To what, where: Sun children, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 told | 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 | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dry | mark |
| 9 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dry | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past · passive | the Sun children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Sun children not said here | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient earth=Result |
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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