Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 14

She took some clay in her hands and wet it in the river, then she shaped it like the hollow stone she used for cooking.

Who acts: squaw · What happens: take, wet, shape, use · To what, where: clay, hands, river, hollow stone

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 (squaw), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 clay	det
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wet	cc
9	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wet	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wet	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shaped	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 shaped	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shaped	nsubj
17	shaped	shape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shaped	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 stone	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stone	det
21	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stone	amod
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shaped	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 used	nsubj
24	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stone	acl:relcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 cooking	case
26	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 used	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	squaw	some clay	squaw's hands			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent clay=Value in hand=Location
2	wet	infinitive	squaw not said here	clay	the river			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	shape	past	squaw	clay		then	like the hollow stone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	use	past	squaw	the hollow stone not said here			for cooking	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent stone=Theme for cooking=Eventuality

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 14