Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 11

No rain had fallen since they had been there, and they found their footprints in the clay.

Who acts: rain, boys · What happens: fall, be, find · To what, where: footprints, clay

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 (rain, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 there	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 there	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fallen	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 footprints	nmod:poss
15	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 clay	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clay	det
18	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	no rain				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	boys = boy			there property	tree rules
3	find	past	boys = boy	boys's footprints	the clay		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footprint=Topic

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 11