Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 7

“He worried and worked as much over the daubs on his cheeks as some very civilized girls would over a naughty curl.

Who acts: daub · What happens: worry, work · To what, where: daubs

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), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 worried	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worried	nsubj
3	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 worked	cc
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worried	conj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	5 worked	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 daubs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daubs	det
10	daubs	daub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worked	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 cheeks	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cheeks	nmod:poss
13	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 daubs	nmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 would	mark
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 girls	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 civilized	advmod
17	civilized	civilized	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girls	amod
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 would	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	ccomp
20	over	over	ADP	_	23 curl	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 curl	det
22	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 curl	amod
23	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 would	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry in a quote	past	daub						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	work in a quote	past	daub not said here			the daubs on daub's cheeks			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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 7

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 7