Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 8
The medicine man usually works himself into a frenzy or even into a fit, and while in this state his mutterings are taken for advice and followed.
Who acts: medicine man, sickness · What happens: work, take, follow, mutter · To what, where: sickness, frenzy, mutterings, state
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 man, sickness), 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 man | det |
| 2 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | compound |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 works | advmod |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 works | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 frenzy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 frenzy | det |
| 9 | frenzy | frenzy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 fit | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 fit | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 fit | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fit | det |
| 14 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frenzy | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 taken | cc |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 state | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 state | det |
| 20 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mutterings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mutterings | muttering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 works | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 advice | case |
| 26 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 followed | cc |
| 28 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 works | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | the medicine man | sickness | a frenzy or a fit | usually property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent himself=Material into frenzy=Product | ||
| 2 | take | present · passive | sickness's mutterings | this state | for advice | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in state=Location | |||
| 3 | follow | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | mutter | sickness | nom muttering «event 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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