Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 25
An Indian brave will not do his squaw’s work, and his squaw does not wish her brave to be different from other men.
Who acts: Indian brave, squaw · What happens: not do, not wish, be, work · To what, where: work
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 brave, squaw), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brave | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | amod |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 squaw | nmod:poss |
| 8 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 squaw | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wish | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 squaw | nmod:poss |
| 14 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 wish | advmod |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brave | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 different | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 different | cop |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brave | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 men | amod |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 different | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | a Indian brave | husband's squaw's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not wish | present · do-support | husband's squaw | brave property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | husband's squaw not said here | from other men; different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | husband's squaw | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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