Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 5
If injured, they rarely show pain, though the torture of the broken limb or the bullet may be intense.
Who acts: Indians, torture · What happens: injure, show, break, be, torture · To what, where: pain, broken limb
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 (Indians, torture), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 injured | mark |
| 2 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 show | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 injured | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 show | nsubj |
| 5 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 6 show | advmod |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 intense | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 intense | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 torture | det |
| 11 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 intense | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 limb | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 limb | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 limb | amod |
| 15 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 torture | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 bullet | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bullet | det |
| 18 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 limb | conj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 intense | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 intense | cop |
| 21 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 show | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | injure a condition, not said to happen | participle | Indians = indian not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | present | Indians = indian | pain | rarely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | may | the torture of the broken limb or the bullet | intense property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | torture | the broken limb or the bullet | nom torture «feeling transitive»: 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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