Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 13
“Such a self-satisfied air did he put on when paint, feather, and blanket had been arranged to his liking!
Who acts: satisfied air · What happens: put on, arrange · To what, where: paint, blanket
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (satisfied air), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 air | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 4 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfied | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 self | punct |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 air | amod |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 paint | mark |
| 13 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feather | punct |
| 15 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paint | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arranged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 arranged | cc |
| 18 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arranged | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 arranged | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 arranged | aux:pass |
| 21 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 put | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 liking | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 liking | nmod:poss |
| 24 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arranged | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on in a quote | past · do-support | such satisfied air | paint and feather | air nsubj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent paint=Goal | |||
| 2 | arrange in a quote | past · perfect · passive | blanket | to blanket's liking | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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