Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 2

Their reading of weather signs is very accurate, and possibly their rain-makers are simply experts in these signs.

Who acts: reading, rain makers, Indians · What happens: be, read · To what, where: experts, signs, weather signs

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reading, rain makers, 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 reading	nmod:poss
2	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accurate	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 signs	case
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signs	compound
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reading	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 accurate	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 accurate	advmod
8	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 experts	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 experts	cc
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	18 experts	advmod
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 makers	nmod:poss
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 makers	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 rain	punct
15	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 experts	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 experts	cop
17	simply	simply	ADV	_	18 experts	advmod
18	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 accurate	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 signs	case
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 signs	det
21	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 experts	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 accurate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Indians's reading of weather signs			accurate property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Indians's rain makers	experts	this signs	possibly, simply property	tree rules
3	read		Indians = indian	weather signs			nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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, Indian Traits, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 2