Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 48
When the Indian has learned that village life is no disgrace, he may become even greater than the paleface with the talking leaves or printed book.
Who acts: Indian, village life, many · What happens: learn, be, become, print · To what, where: disgrace
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 (Indian, village life, many), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 learned | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indian | det |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | aux |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 become | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 disgrace | mark |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 life | compound |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disgrace | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 disgrace | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 disgrace | det |
| 11 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 greater | advmod |
| 17 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 become | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 paleface | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 paleface | det |
| 20 | paleface | paleface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 greater | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 leaves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 leaves | det |
| 23 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leaves | compound |
| 24 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 paleface | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 book | cc |
| 26 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 book | amod | |
| 27 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leaves | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect | the Indian | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | village life | no disgrace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | may | many | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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