Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 16
The Indians paint their faces very differently when they are going on the warpath.
Who acts: Indians, pains · What happens: paint, go · To what, where: faces, warpath
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 (Indians, pains), 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 | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 paint | nsubj |
| 3 | paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 faces | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paint | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 differently | advmod |
| 7 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 3 paint | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 going | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 paint | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 warpath | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 warpath | det |
| 14 | warpath | warpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present | the Indians | pains's faces | differently property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | pains = pain | the warpath | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on warpath=Location |
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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