Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 18
The medicine men of many tribes dress themselves in hideous fashion to excite the fear and compel the respect of their people.
Who acts: medicine men · What happens: dress, excite, compel, respect · To what, where: men, hideous fashion, fear, respect, people
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | compound |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dress | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tribes | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tribes | amod |
| 6 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 men | nmod |
| 7 | dress | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 dress | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fashion | case |
| 10 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fashion | amod |
| 11 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dress | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 excite | mark |
| 13 | excite | excite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dress | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fear | det |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 excite | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 compel | cc |
| 17 | compel | compel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 excite | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 respect | det |
| 19 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compel | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 people | nmod:poss |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 respect | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present | the medicine men of many tribes | men = man | hideous fashion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 2 | excite | to-infinitive | the medicine men of many tribes not said here | the fear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | compel | infinitive | the medicine men of many tribes not said here | the respect of men's people | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Patient | ||||
| 4 | respect | men's people | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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