Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 9
“In the tuft of hair on his crown he stuck an eagle feather; the mirror showed it was not in a becoming place.
Who acts: daub, mirror · What happens: stick, show, not be, crown · To what, where: eagle feather, tuft, becoming place · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mirror), 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 | _ | 11 stuck | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tuft | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tuft | det |
| 4 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hair | case |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tuft | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 crown | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 crown | nmod:poss |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tuft | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stuck | nsubj |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feather | det |
| 13 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feather | compound |
| 14 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 showed | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mirror | det |
| 17 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | nsubj |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stuck | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 place | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 place | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 place | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 24 | becoming | becoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 place | compound |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick in a quote | past | daub | a eagle feather | the tuft of hair on daub's crown | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme in tuft=Destination | |||
| 2 | show in a quote | past | the mirror | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | past | mirror | a becoming place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | crown in a quote | daub | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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