Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 16
An old chief saw the clay dishes and told the other squaws to make them, but the clay dishes would not hold water and broke very easily.
Who acts: old chief, clay dishes · What happens: see, tell, make, not hold, break · To what, where: clay dishes, other squaws, dishes, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old chief, clay dishes), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dishes | det |
| 6 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dishes | compound |
| 7 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 squaws | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 squaws | amod |
| 12 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | ccomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hold | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 hold | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dishes | det |
| 19 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dishes | compound |
| 20 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hold | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hold | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 hold | advmod |
| 23 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hold | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 broke | cc |
| 26 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 easily | advmod |
| 28 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 26 broke | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a old chief | the clay dishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dish=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a old chief not said here | the other squaws | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent squaw=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | dishes = dish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||||
| 4 | not hold | would | the clay dishes | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | past | a old chief not said here | easily property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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