Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 2
A squaw left her two boys to care for her papoose while she worked.
Who acts: squaw · What happens: leave, care, work · To what, where: her
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 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 boys | nummod |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 care | mark |
| 8 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 papoose | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 papoose | nmod:poss |
| 11 | papoose | papoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 care | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 worked | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worked | nsubj |
| 14 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 care | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | a squaw | her = she | two boys xcomp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | care | to-infinitive | a squaw not said here | for squaw's papoose | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for papoose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | past | squaw | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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