Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 21
The braves they were seeking were hidden in a cave at the foot of the waterfall.
Who acts: braves · What happens: seek, hide · To what, where: braves, cave
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (braves), 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 | 2 braves | det |
| 2 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seeking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeking | aux |
| 5 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 braves | acl:relcl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hidden | aux:pass |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cave | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 waterfall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waterfall | det |
| 16 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 foot | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · progressive | braves = brave | the braves not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past · passive | the braves | a cave at the foot of the waterfall | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in cave=Location |
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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