Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 25

Ietan told them he was ready and willing to suffer the penalty, but when they were older they would know that his words were not false.

Who acts: Ietan, Mandans, words · What happens: tell, be, suffer, know, not be, word · To what, where: Mandans, penalty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ietan, Mandans, words), 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	Ietan	Ietan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ready	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 willing	cc
8	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ready	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 suffer	mark
10	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 willing	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 penalty	det
12	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suffer	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 older	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 older	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 older	cop
18	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 know	advcl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 false	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 words	nmod:poss
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 false	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 false	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 false	advmod
27	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 know	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ietan		Mandans = mandan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	past	Ietan			ready property	tree rules
3	be		Ietan not said here				tree rules
4	suffer	to-infinitive	Ietan not said here	the penalty			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penalty=Stimulus
5	is	past	Mandans = mandan			old property	tree rules
6	know	would	Mandans = mandan				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	not is	past	Ietan's words			false property	tree rules
8	word		Ietan				nom word «communication 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 25

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 25