Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 31
He reached the precious coals of fire and caught one in his mouth.
Who acts: chief · What happens: reach, catch · To what, where: precious coals, one, mouth
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coals | det |
| 4 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coals | amod |
| 5 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coals | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | chief | the precious coals of fire | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | chief not said here | one | chief's mouth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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