Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 15
The child’s head flattens as it grows, and he carries his race mark through life.
Who acts: head, language · What happens: flatten, grow, carry, mark · To what, where: race mark, life
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 (head, language), 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 | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 child | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flattens | nsubj |
| 5 | flattens | flatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 grows | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flattens | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carries | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carries | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carries | nsubj |
| 12 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flattens | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mark | nmod:poss |
| 14 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mark | compound |
| 15 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flattens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatten | present | the child's head | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | head | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | present | language | language's race mark | life | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | |||
| 4 | mark | language | nom mark «cognition 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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