Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 47

These Village Indians make use of a plant called soaproot, the root of which will make water foam and will cleanse one’s skin the same as the white man’s soap.

Who acts: Village Indians, plant, root · What happens: make, call, cleanse, use · To what, where: use, soaproot, water foam, one skin, plant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Village Indians, plant, root), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 Indians	det
2	Village	Village	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Indians	compound
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 plant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plant	det
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	nmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 plant	acl
10	soaproot	soaproot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 root	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 root	det
13	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 make	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 root	acl:relcl
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foam	compound
19	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cleanse	cc
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cleanse	aux
22	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 skin	nummod
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 one	case
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cleanse	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cleanse	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	33 soap	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 soap	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 man	case
33	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cleanse	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	this Village Indians	use of a plant		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
2	call	participle	a plant not said here	soaproot		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	future	the root	water foam		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foam=Product
4	cleanse	future	the root not said here	one skin	as the white man's soap	tree rules
5	use			a plant		nom use «act transitive»: of=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 47