Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 13
Their medicine men try to bring back the wandering soul by many curious performances.
Who acts: medicine men · What happens: try, bring back, wonder · To what, where: wandering soul
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 (medicine men), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 men | nmod:poss |
| 2 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | compound |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 try | nsubj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 soul | amod |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 performances | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 performances | amod |
| 13 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 performances | amod |
| 14 | performances | performance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Indians's medicine men | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Indians's medicine men not said here | the wandering soul | by many curious performances | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | |||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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