Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 2
How Clay Dishes were first made 88 III.
What happens: make · To what, where: Clay Dishes
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 made | advmod |
| 2 | Clay | Clay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dishes | compound |
| 3 | Dishes | Dish | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 made | advmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | 88 | 88 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 III | compound |
| 8 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Clay Dishes | 88 III obj; first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary iii=Product |
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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