Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 17
The warriors of each nation have their own fashion of painting their faces and bodies.
Who acts: warriors, own fashion · What happens: have, paint · To what, where: own fashion, faces
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 (warriors, own fashion), 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 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nation | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 nation | det |
| 5 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warriors | nmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fashion | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fashion | amod |
| 9 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 painting | mark |
| 11 | painting | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 fashion | acl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 faces | nmod:poss |
| 13 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 painting | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bodies | cc |
| 15 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 faces | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the warriors of each nation | warriors's own fashion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fashion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | paint | gerund | warriors's own fashion not said here | warriors's faces and bodies | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination |
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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