Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 15
She dried the clay in the sun, and it was soon hard.
Who acts: squaw · What happens: dry, be · To what, where: clay, sun
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 dried | nsubj |
| 2 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clay | det |
| 4 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dried | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hard | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hard | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hard | cop |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 hard | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dried | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | squaw | the clay | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clay=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | squaw not said here | hard, soon property | tree rules |
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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