Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 9
They would cook it on the hill and then fill their clay bowls with the soup.
Who acts: boys · What happens: cook, fill · To what, where: piece, clay bowls
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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 | 3 cook | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cook | aux |
| 3 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cook | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hill | det |
| 7 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cook | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fill | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 fill | advmod |
| 10 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cook | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bowls | nmod:poss |
| 12 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bowls | compound |
| 13 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fill | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 soup | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soup | det |
| 16 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fill | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | would | boys = boy | piece | on the hill | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient on hill=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fill | infinitive | boys = boy not said here | boys's clay bowls | then | with the soup | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient with soup=Instrument |
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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