Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 32
A certain military surgeon who has been among them and has keen, dark eyes and gray hair is always called Gray Eagle.
Who acts: certain military surgeon · What happens: have, be, call · To what, where: keen dark eyes, certain military surgeon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (certain military surgeon), 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 | 4 surgeon | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surgeon | amod |
| 3 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surgeon | amod |
| 4 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 surgeon | acl:relcl |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 them | cop |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 has | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 has | cc |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | conj |
| 12 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hair | cc |
| 17 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | conj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 called | advmod |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Eagle | amod |
| 23 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a certain military surgeon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | among names = name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | a certain military surgeon not said here | keen dark eyes and gray hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | a certain military surgeon | Gray Eagle xcomp; always property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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