Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 13

The rock broke open the egg, and out of it came a grown man, but the rock lay upon his feet and he could not walk.

Who acts: rock, grown man, man · What happens: break, open, come, grow, lie, not walk · To what, where: egg, feet

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, grown man, man), 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 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 broke	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 it	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rock	det
19	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	parataxis
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lay	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 walk	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 walk	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 walk	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 walk	advmod
28	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lay	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	break	past	the rock			tree rules
2	open	infinitive	the rock not said here	the egg		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme
3	come	past	a grown man		egg	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out it=Initial_Location
4	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie	past	the rock		man's feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=Location
6	not walk	could	man			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 13