Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 27

He is not petted nor fed like the Arabian horse, but is just as necessary to his master’s happiness.

What happens: not pet, feed, be · To what, where: pony

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: 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 petted	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 petted	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 petted	advmod
4	petted	pet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fed	cc
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 petted	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 horse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 necessary	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 necessary	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 necessary	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 necessary	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 necessary	case
16	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 petted	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 happiness	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 master	nmod:poss
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 happiness	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 master	case
21	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 necessary	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 petted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pet	present · passive	pony		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
2	feed	participle		like the Arabian horse	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		to pony's master's happiness; necessary property	tree rules

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 27