Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians, sentence 3
They came through an opening between the clouds and tried to find a place upon the earth.
Who acts: cranes · What happens: come, try, find · To what, where: opening, place
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. the Origin of the Crane Tribe of the Ojibway or Chippewa Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cranes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 opening | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 opening | det |
| 5 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 clouds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clouds | det |
| 8 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opening | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | cranes = crane | a opening between the clouds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through opening=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | try | past | cranes = crane not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | cranes = crane not said here | a place | upon the earth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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