Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 23
Will you dive down to the sand under this deep water and bring me a few grains?
Who acts: you · What happens: dive down, bring · To what, where: deep water, few grains, me
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. Story of the Deluge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 dive | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 dive | nsubj |
| 3 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 dive | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sand | det |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dive | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 water | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dive | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bring | cc |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dive | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 grains | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grains | amod |
| 17 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bring | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive down | future | you | this deep water | to the sand; down property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sand=Location | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | a few grains | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination grain=Theme |
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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