Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 2

The water manitous have cut the sides of this rock; it is smooth on the top; it is smooth on the sides; it is like a piece of ice in the Big Sea Water.

Who acts: rock · What happens: cut, be · To what, where: water manitous, top, sides

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock), 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 manitous	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 manitous	compound
3	manitous	manitou	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 rock	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 rock	det
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sides	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 smooth	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smooth	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 smooth	cop
14	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cut	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smooth	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 smooth	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 smooth	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 smooth	cop
21	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 smooth	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 sides	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sides	det
24	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 smooth	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 piece	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 piece	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 piece	cop
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 piece	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 piece	det
30	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 ice	case
32	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 piece	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 Water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Water	det
35	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Water	amod
36	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Water	compound
37	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ice	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	present · perfect · passive		the water manitous		the sides of this rock obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary side=Product
2	is	present	rock		the top	smooth property	tree rules
3	is	present	rock		the sides	smooth property	tree rules
4	is	present	rock			like a piece; of ice in the Big Sea Water	tree rules

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 2