Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 6
She got her three children back to the wickiup.
Who acts: squaw · What happens: get · To what, where: three children
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 children | nummod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wickiup | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wickiup | det |
| 9 | wickiup | wickiup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 back | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | squaw | squaw's three children | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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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