Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 58
This prophecy is repeated in the religious dances, and the medicine men comfort their people with it when the tribes feel the injustice of the whites.
Who acts: medicine men, tribes · What happens: repeat, comfort, feel · To what, where: prophecy, religious dances, people, injustice
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 (medicine men, tribes), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 prophecy | det |
| 2 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | aux:pass |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dances | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dances | det |
| 7 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dances | amod |
| 8 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 repeated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfort | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 comfort | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 men | compound |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 comfort | nsubj |
| 14 | comfort | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | parataxis |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 comfort | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 comfort | obl |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 feel | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tribes | det |
| 21 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 comfort | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 injustice | det |
| 24 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feel | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 whites | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 whites | det |
| 27 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 injustice | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present · passive | this prophecy | the religious dances | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | comfort | present | the medicine men | dances's people | with prophecy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | feel | present | the tribes | the injustice of the whites | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=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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