Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 44
The Sun-children shot the beasts with their arrows; then the beasts became stone.
Who acts: Sun children, beasts · What happens: shoot, become · To what, where: beasts, stone
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, beasts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 children | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sun | punct |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shot | nsubj |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beasts | det |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shot | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 arrows | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shot | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 became | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beasts | det |
| 14 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shot | conj |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the Sun children | the beasts | with beasts's arrows | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent beast=Patient with arrow=Instrument | |||
| 2 | become | past | the beasts | stone | then | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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