Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 6

A daub of the brightest red paint went down the line marking the parting of his hair.

Who acts: daub, hair · What happens: go down, mark, part · To what, where: line, parting

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 (daub, hair), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 daub	det
2	daub	daub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 paint	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 paint	det
5	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 paint	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paint	amod
7	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daub	nmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 line	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 line	det
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	marking	mark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 parting	det
14	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marking	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hair	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 parting	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go down	past	a daub of the brightest red paint	the line	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient line=Extent
2	mark	gerund	a daub of the brightest red paint not said here	the parting of daub's hair	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent parting=Destination
3	part		daub's hair		nom parting «act intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 6