Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 33

Their senses are trained to observe very keenly, and they quickly know each person.

Who acts: senses, names · What happens: train, observe, know · To what, where: senses, person

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 (senses, names), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 senses	nmod:poss
2	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trained	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	aux:pass
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 observe	mark
6	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trained	xcomp
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 keenly	advmod
8	keenly	keenly	ADV	_	6 observe	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	parataxis
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive		names's senses		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	observe	to-infinitive	names's senses not said here		keenly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	names = name	each person	quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus

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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 33