Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 20
A terrible storm came from the sea and washed away these rocks and her wigwam; after that the fishermen were not afraid.
Who acts: terrible storm, fishermen · What happens: come, wash away, not be · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible storm, fishermen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rocks | cc |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rocks | amod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 washed | advmod |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sea | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wigwam | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rocks | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 afraid | punct |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 afraid | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 afraid | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fishermen | det |
| 20 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 afraid | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 afraid | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 afraid | advmod |
| 23 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a terrible storm | the sea and this washed rocks and storm's wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wash away | participle | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | the fishermen | afraid property | tree rules |
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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