Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 33
Before he could reach his own burrow he had to drop the burning coal.
Who acts: chief, own burrow · What happens: reach, have, drop · To what, where: own burrow, burning coal
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, own burrow), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 reach | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reach | aux |
| 4 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 burrow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 burrow | amod |
| 7 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reach | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 burrow | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drop | mark |
| 11 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coal | det |
| 13 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coal | compound |
| 14 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drop | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | could | chief | chief's own burrow | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | chief | chief's own burrow not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drop | to-infinitive | chief's own burrow not said here | the burning coal | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=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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