Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 28
The wise men filled their peace pipes and offered the smoke of their pipes to the star.
Who acts: wise men, pipes · What happens: fill, offer, smoke · To what, where: peace pipes, smoke, star
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise men, pipes), 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 men | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pipes | compound |
| 7 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offered | cc |
| 9 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smoke | det |
| 11 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pipes | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 smoke | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 star | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 star | det |
| 17 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the wise men | men's peace pipes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | the wise men not said here | the smoke of men's pipes | to the star goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme to star=Goal | |||
| 3 | smoke | men's pipes | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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