Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 10
The two little Indian boys went down to the clay bank where they had stuck fast.
Who acts: two, little Indian boys, boys · What happens: boy, go down, stick
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, little Indian boys, boys), 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 | 5 boys | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 boys | nsubj |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 10 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | compound |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 stuck | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stuck | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stuck | aux |
| 15 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 bank | acl:relcl |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 stuck | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boy | two | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go down | past | the little Indian boys | to the clay bank; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | stick | past · perfect | boys = boy | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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