Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 36

All the world had fire now, and there has always been enough since the muskrat dropped the first coal.

Who acts: world, muskrat · What happens: have, be, drop · To what, where: fire, first 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 (world, muskrat), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 world	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 world	det
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 has	expl
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 enough	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 enough	cop
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 has	advmod
14	since	since	SCONJ	_	17 dropped	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 muskrat	det
16	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dropped	nsubj
17	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 has	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coal	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 coal	amod
20	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dropped	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	all world	fire		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
2	have	present	all world not said here		there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle					always, enough property	tree rules
4	drop	past	the muskrat	the first 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 36