Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 37
The boy lay down and put his toe into his mouth.
Who acts: boy · What happens: lie down, put · To what, where: toe, mouth
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 (boy), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 toe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the boy | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the boy not said here | boy's toe | boy's mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent toe=Goal |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/70/37/