Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 52

After the death of one of their tribe, his house, or hogan, is pulled down; if this is not done, every one who enters it fears danger.

Who acts: one, death · What happens: pull down, not do, enter, fear · To what, where: this, danger

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 (one, death), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 death	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 death	det
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pulled	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 death	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tribe	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tribe	nmod:poss
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 house	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 house	nmod:poss
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hogan	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 hogan	cc
14	hogan	hogan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 death	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pulled	aux:pass
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 pulled	compound:prt
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 done	mark
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 done	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux:pass
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 done	advmod
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pulled	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pulled	parataxis
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 enters	nsubj
29	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 one	acl:relcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fears	nsubj
31	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 enters	ccomp
32	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fears	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present · passive			after the death of one of Navajos's tribe	every one parataxis	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»
2	not do a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	enter	present	every one				tree rules
4	fear	present	death	danger			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus

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 52