Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 41
Looking him over from head to foot, they all seem to have reached the same conclusion at the same time; with shouts of laughter and mocking bows and grimaces, they gave him back his boxes.
Who acts: pockets · What happens: look over, seem, reach, shout, mock, give back · To what, where: professor, head, same conclusion, bows, boxes
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 (pockets), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 seem | advcl |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Looking | obj |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | compound:prt |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 foot | case |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seem | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 seem | advmod |
| 11 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reached | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 reached | aux |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 seem | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 conclusion | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 conclusion | amod |
| 17 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 shouts | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 shouts | case |
| 24 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seem | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 laughter | case |
| 26 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shouts | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mocking | cc |
| 28 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 laughter | conj |
| 29 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mocking | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grimaces | cc |
| 31 | grimaces | grimace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bows | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gave | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gave | nsubj |
| 34 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shouts | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gave | iobj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 gave | advmod |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 boxes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 gave | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look over | gerund | pockets = pocket not said here | professor | head | to foot | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute | ||
| 2 | seem | present | pockets = pocket | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive · perfect | pockets = pocket not said here | the same conclusion | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent conclusion=Theme | |||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | of laughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mock | gerund | bows and grimaces | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give back | past | pockets = pocket | professor's boxes | professor | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=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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