Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 19
The hot coals baked the dish, and it would not break.
Who acts: hot coals, fire · What happens: bake, not break · To what, where: 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 (hot coals, fire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coals | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coals | amod |
| 3 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 baked | nsubj |
| 4 | baked | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dish | det |
| 6 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 break | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 break | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 break | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 break | advmod |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 baked | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 baked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | past | the hot coals | the dish | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Product | ||||
| 2 | not break | would | fire | 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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