Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 5
Fire-water, as they call whiskey, makes them forget the manners their parents taught them.
Who acts: Indians, Fire water, parents · What happens: call, make, forget, teach · To what, where: whiskey, Indians, manners · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Indians, Fire water, parents), 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 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fire | punct |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 call | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 water | acl:relcl |
| 8 | whiskey | whiskey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 manners | det |
| 14 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 forget | obj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taught | nsubj |
| 17 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 manners | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taught | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Indians = indian | whiskey | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whiskey=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Fire water | Indians = indian | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | the manners | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | past | Indians's parents | the manners not said here | Indians = indian | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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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