Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 3
She was hidden in the wickiup, or tent, and did not see what the boys were doing until the papoose began to cry.
Who acts: boys, papoose · What happens: hide, not see, do, begin, cry · To what, where: squaw, wickiup · 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 (boys, papoose), 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 | 3 hidden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wickiup | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wickiup | det |
| 6 | wickiup | wickiup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hidden | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tent | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 tent | cc |
| 9 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wickiup | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hidden | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 doing | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boys | det |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 doing | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 doing | aux |
| 19 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 see | ccomp |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 began | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 papoose | det |
| 22 | papoose | papoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 began | nsubj |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 cry | mark |
| 25 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | squaw | the wickiup or tent | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in wickiup=Location | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | the boys | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the papoose | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the papoose not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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