Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 16
The moccasins are quickly put upon the feet of the patient that his soul may not escape.
Who acts: soul · What happens: put, not escape · To what, where: moccasins, feet, patient
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 (soul), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moccasins | det |
| 2 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feet | det |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 patient | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 patient | det |
| 11 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feet | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 escape | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 escape | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 escape | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 escape | advmod |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 patient | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | the moccasins | the feet of the patient | quickly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | not escape | may | patient's soul | the patient not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme patient=Initial_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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