Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 48
The Indian who lives in a teepee does not know the use of soap and is not anxious for a bath.
Who acts: Indian, teepee · What happens: live, not know, not be, use · To what, where: use, soap
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 (Indian, teepee), 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 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 teepee | det |
| 7 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lives | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 use | det |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 soap | case |
| 14 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 use | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 anxious | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 anxious | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 anxious | advmod |
| 18 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lives | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 bath | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bath | det |
| 21 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anxious | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Indian | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | a teepee | the use of soap | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer use=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | the Indian not said here | for a bath; anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | soap | 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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