Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 20

Indian women are sometimes very handsome when young; but the quantity of colored earth they use as paint does not hide half the dirt upon their faces.

Who acts: Indian women, quantity, paint · What happens: be, color, use, not hide · To what, where: dirt, 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 (Indian women, quantity, paint), 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	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 women	amod
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 handsome	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 handsome	cop
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 handsome	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 handsome	advmod
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 young	advmod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handsome	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 use	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 use	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 quantity	det
12	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 use	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 earth	amod
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quantity	nmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 use	nsubj
17	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 handsome	parataxis
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 hide	mark
19	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hide	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hide	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hide	advmod
22	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 use	advcl
23	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	25 dirt	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dirt	det
25	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hide	obj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 faces	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 faces	nmod:poss
28	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hide	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 handsome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Indian women			handsome, sometimes property	tree rules
2	be		Indian women not said here				tree rules
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	use	present	the quantity of colored earth			women = woman nsubj	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not hide	present · do-support	paint	half dirt	women's faces		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient upon face=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 20