Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 27

The second son is Harpam; his next brother is Hapeda; the fourth son is Chatun; and the fifth boy has the name of Harka all ready for him.

Who acts: second son, next brother, fourth son, fifth boy · What happens: be, have, name · To what, where: Harpam, Hapeda, Chatun, name, Harka

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 (second son, next brother, fourth son, fifth boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Harpam	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Harpam	cop
5	Harpam	Harpam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 Hapeda	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Hapeda	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Hapeda	cop
11	Hapeda	Hapeda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Harpam	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 Chatun	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 son	det
14	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 son	amod
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Chatun	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Chatun	cop
17	Chatun	Chatun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Harpam	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
21	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Harpam	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 name	det
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Harka	case
27	Harka	Harka	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 name	nmod
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 ready	advmod
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 has	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ready	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Harpam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the second son	Harpam and Hapeda and Chatun	tree rules
2	is a	present	Sioux's next brother	Hapeda	tree rules
3	is a	present	the fourth son	Chatun	tree rules
4	have	present	the fifth boy	the name of Harka	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
5	name			Harka	nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 27