Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 19

Their bearing is dignified; their faces are earnest and solemn; and each one treads the earth as a king.

Who acts: faces, one · What happens: dignify, be, tread · To what, where: bearing, earth

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 (faces, one), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bearing	nmod:poss
2	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dignified	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dignified	aux:pass
4	dignified	dignify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 earnest	punct
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 faces	nmod:poss
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 earnest	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 earnest	cop
9	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 dignified	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 solemn	cc
11	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 earnest	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 treads	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 treads	cc
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 treads	nsubj
16	treads	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dignified	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earth	det
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 treads	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 king	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 treads	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dignified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dignify	present · passive		chiefs's bearing		tree rules
2	is	present	chiefs's faces		earn property	tree rules
3	be		chiefs's faces not said here			tree rules
4	tread	present	each one	the earth	as a king	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location earth=Theme

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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 19