Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 7
Their medicine is to contrive some way to drive out the evil spirit of sickness.
Who acts: medicine, men · What happens: be, drive out, medicine · To what, where: evil spirit
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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 2 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contrive | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 contrive | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 contrive | mark |
| 5 | contrive | contrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contrive | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drive | mark |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 drive | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spirit | amod |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sickness | case |
| 15 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spirit | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contrive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | men's medicine | some way obj; contrive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive out | to-infinitive | men's medicine not said here | the evil spirit of sickness | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme spirit=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | medicine | men = man | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: 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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