Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 9
He created two children for himself, and they fell to the earth to help the cave people.
Who acts: Holder, children · What happens: create, fall, help · To what, where: two children, cave people
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 (Holder, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 created | nsubj |
| 2 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 children | nummod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 created | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 created | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 created | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fell | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | compound |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 help | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | Holder | two children | for Holder | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent child=Result for himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | fall | past | children = child | to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | the cave people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
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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