Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 18
She wanted to save the fire, for it was hard to get.
Who acts: squaw · What happens: want, save, be, get · To what, where: fire
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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 save | mark |
| 4 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 save | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hard | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 hard | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hard | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hard | cop |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wanted | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hard | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | squaw | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | squaw not said here | the fire | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | squaw not said here | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | squaw not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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