Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 12

These changed into flint stones when they touched the earth, and men made fire by striking two of them together.

Who acts: These, arrows, men · What happens: change, touch, make, strike · To what, where: men, flint stones, earth, fire, two

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, arrows, men), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 stones	case
4	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stones	compound
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 changed	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 touched	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 touched	nsubj
8	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touched	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 men	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 men	cc
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 changed	obl
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 men	acl
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 striking	mark
17	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 made	advcl
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 striking	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 two	nmod
21	together	together	ADV	_	18 two	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	participle	These	men	into flint stones result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into stone=Result
2	touch	past	arrows = arrow	the earth		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
3	make	participle	men not said here	fire		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
4	strike	gerund	men not said here	two of arrows		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 12