Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 18
The first man was slow to learn and he stood many moons in his place in the pipestone rocks; nothing came to hurt him.
Who acts: first man, man, nothing · What happens: be, learn, stand, come, hurt · To what, where: many moons, place, man
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 (first man, man, nothing), 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 man | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slow | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slow | cop |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slow | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slow | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moons | amod |
| 12 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 rocks | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rocks | det |
| 18 | pipestone | pipestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rocks | compound |
| 19 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slow | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hurt | mark |
| 24 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hurt | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first man | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | the first man not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | man | many moons | man's place | in the pipestone rocks | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moon=Theme in place=Destination | ||
| 4 | come | past | nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hurt | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | man | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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