Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 18

The war chiefs have a very noble look when they come out with their feather war bonnets reaching from the crowns of their heads down to their feet.

Who acts: war chiefs, noble, chiefs, feather war bonnets · What happens: have, look, come out, reach, crown · To what, where: crowns, heads

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 (war chiefs, noble, chiefs, feather war bonnets), 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 chiefs	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chiefs	compound
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 noble	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 noble	advmod
7	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	ccomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 come	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 look	advcl
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 bonnets	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bonnets	nmod:poss
15	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bonnets	compound
16	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bonnets	compound
17	bonnets	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	obl
18	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 bonnets	acl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 crowns	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crowns	det
21	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reaching	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 heads	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heads	nmod:poss
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 crowns	nmod
25	down	down	ADV	_	18 reaching	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 down	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the war chiefs				tree rules
2	look	present	a noble				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	come out	present	chiefs = chief			with chiefs's feather war bonnets; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	reach	gerund	chiefs's feather war bonnets not said here		the crowns of chiefs's heads	down property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	crown			chiefs's heads			nom crown «communication 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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 18