Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 30
He dried it in his hand again and then blew it to its place on the deep water.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: dry, blow · To what, where: sand, hand, place, deep water
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 (Menabozho), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dried | nsubj |
| 2 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dried | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dried | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 dried | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 blew | advmod |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dried | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blew | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 place | nmod:poss |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | Menabozho | sand | Menabozho's hand | again | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||
| 2 | blow | past | Menabozho not said here | sand | sand's place | the deep water | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to place=Recipient |
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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