Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 14
The Flathead Indians of the west bind a piece of stiff board upon the forehead of their papooses.
Who acts: Flathead Indians · What happens: bind · To what, where: piece
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flathead Indians), 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 Indians | det |
| 2 | Flathead | Flathead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | compound |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 bind | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 west | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 west | det |
| 6 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bind | obl |
| 7 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bind | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 board | case |
| 11 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 board | amod |
| 12 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piece | nmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 forehead | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forehead | det |
| 15 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bind | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 papooses | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 papooses | nmod:poss |
| 18 | papooses | papoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forehead | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | infinitive | the Flathead Indians | a piece of stiff board | of the west; upon the forehead of Indians's papooses | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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