Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 15
If the feathers become warm to the touch, they will know that the wandering soul has touched them and perhaps is hiding in them.
Who acts: feathers · What happens: become, know, wonder, touch, hide · To what, where: wandering soul · 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 (feathers), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 become | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feathers | det |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 become | nsubj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | advcl |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 touch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 touch | det |
| 8 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 touched | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soul | det |
| 15 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 soul | amod |
| 16 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 touched | aux |
| 18 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 know | ccomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 touched | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hiding | cc |
| 21 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 23 hiding | advmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hiding | aux |
| 23 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 touched | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hiding | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become a condition, not said to happen | present | the feathers | warm property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | future | feathers = feather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | touch | present · perfect · passive | the wandering soul | feathers = feather obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result | ||||
| 5 | hide | present · progressive | in feathers = feather; perhaps property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in they=Location |
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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