Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 2

He did not go around asking questions of his neighbors, but just used his eyes instead of his tongue for the first hour, and his eyes told him many things.

Who acts: Indian, eyes · What happens: not go around, ask, use, tell, question · To what, where: questions, eyes, many things, Indian, neighbors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian’s Eye Training. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, eyes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	around	around	ADP	_	6 asking	mark
6	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 go	advcl
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asking	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 neighbors	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neighbors	nmod:poss
10	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 questions	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 used	advmod
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 used	obj
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 tongue	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tongue	nmod:poss
20	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 used	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 hour	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hour	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 hour	amod
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tongue	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eyes	nmod:poss
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 told	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not go around	past · do-support	Indian				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Indian not said here	questions of Indian's neighbors			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	use	past		Indian's eyes		instead Indian's tongue for the first hour	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	Indian's eyes	many things	Indian		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Topic
5	question			Indian's neighbors			nom question «communication 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 2