Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 7
The Indians went away and told the wild animals, and asked their help.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: go away, tell, ask, help · To what, where: wild animals, help · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Indians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 animals | amod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 help | nmod:poss |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the Indians | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Indians not said here | the wild animals | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Indians not said here | Indians's help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | help | Indians = indian | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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