Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 17
If he does not get well, it is because his friends were not quick enough in their work.
Who acts: soul, spirit, friends · What happens: not get, not be, work · To what, where: work
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, spirit, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 quick | advcl |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 quick | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 quick | cop |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 quick | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 quick | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 quick | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 quick | advmod |
| 15 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 quick | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 work | nmod:poss |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quick | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | soul | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | spirit | friends's work | soul's friends nsubj; enough, quick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | work | friends = friend | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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