Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 14

Perhaps some daughter of the Dakotas was the cause of all this patient study of the art of dressing; but I cannot dream of Hiawatha ever belittling himself to take so long a time with feathers and paint.”

Who acts: daughter, I · What happens: be, not dream, belittle, take, study · To what, where: cause, Hiawatha, art

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 (daughter, I), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 daughter	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Dakotas	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dakotas	det
6	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 daughter	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cause	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cause	det
9	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 study	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 study	det:predet
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 study	det
13	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 study	amod
14	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 art	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 art	det
17	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 study	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 dressing	case
19	dressing	dressing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 art	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dream	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 dream	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 dream	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 dream	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dream	advmod
25	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cause	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Hiawatha	case
27	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dream	obl
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 belittling	advmod
29	belittling	belittle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 dream	advcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 belittling	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 belittling	xcomp
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 time	det
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 feathers	case
38	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 take	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 paint	cc
40	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 feathers	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cause	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	some daughter of the Dakotas	the cause		of all patient study of the art of dressing	tree rules
2	not dream	can	I			of Hiawatha	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	belittle	gerund	I not said here	Hiawatha	ever		tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	I not said here		time	with feathers and paint	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	study			the art of dressing			nom study «act 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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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 14