Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 23

Old Chief Sleepy-eye had a bright mind, but his eyelids did not serve him well; hence his name.

Who acts: Chief Sleepy eye, eyelids, eye · What happens: have, not serve, name · To what, where: bright mind, eye

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief Sleepy eye, eyelids, eye), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Chief	amod
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eye	compound
3	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Sleepy	punct
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mind	det
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mind	amod
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 serve	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 serve	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyelids	nmod:poss
13	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 serve	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 serve	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 serve	advmod
16	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 serve	obj
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 serve	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 name	punct
20	hence	hence	ADV	_	22 name	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Chief Sleepy eye	a bright mind	eye's name obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	not serve	past · do-support	eye's eyelids	eye	well property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
3	name		eye			nom name «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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 23