Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 42

They had discovered by all the signs that he was a being who had not a sense left, and they would not harm him.

Who acts: pockets · What happens: discover, be, leave, not harm · To what, where: sense, professor

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 discovered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 discovered	aux
3	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 signs	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 signs	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 signs	det
7	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 discovered	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 a	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 a	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 a	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 discovered	conj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 had	cop
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 a	acl:relcl
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 sense	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sense	det
17	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sense	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 harm	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 harm	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 harm	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 harm	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 harm	advmod
24	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 left	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 harm	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	discover	past · perfect	pockets = pocket		by all signs	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund			who nsubj; a sense obj; have property	tree rules
3	leave	participle		a sense not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not harm	would	pockets = pocket	professor		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 42