Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 17
A squaw put some ashes and fire in her dish one day.
Who acts: squaw · What happens: put · To what, where: ashes, dish
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 squaw | det |
| 2 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 ashes | det |
| 5 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fire | cc |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ashes | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dish | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dish | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | a squaw | some ashes and fire | squaw's dish | day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme in dish=Destination |
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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