Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 11
Many tribes believe that the soul leaves the body when the evil spirit of sickness enters.
Who acts: Many tribes, soul, evil spirit · What happens: believe, leave, enter · To what, where: body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Medicine Men Among the Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many tribes, soul, evil spirit), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tribes | amod |
| 2 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 leaves | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soul | det |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | nsubj |
| 7 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | obj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 enters | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spirit | amod |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enters | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sickness | case |
| 15 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spirit | nmod |
| 16 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaves | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Many tribes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | the soul | the body | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | present | the evil spirit of sickness | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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