Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 14
For one thing, the sick man’s friends are ordered to hang up his buckskin moccasins stuffed with soft feathery down.
Who acts: friends · What happens: order, hang up, stuff · To what, where: friends, buckskin moccasins
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 (friends), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 thing | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thing | nummod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ordered | aux:pass |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hang | mark |
| 13 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 hang | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 16 | buckskin | buckskin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moccasins | amod |
| 17 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hang | obj |
| 18 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 moccasins | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 feathery | case |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feathery | amod |
| 21 | feathery | feathery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stuffed | obl |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 hang | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present · passive | the sick man's friends | for one thing | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hang up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sick man's friends not said here | soul's buckskin moccasins | down property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moccasin=Patient | |||
| 3 | stuff | participle | soul's buckskin moccasins not said here | with soft feathery | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feathery=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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