Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 53

A Navajo will not look into the face of the mother of his wife; when they talk together he looks on the ground or in another direction.

Who acts: Navajo, Navajos, Zuñi · What happens: not look, talk, look

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 (Navajo, Navajos, Zuñi), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Navajo	det
2	Navajo	navajo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 face	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 face	det
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mother	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 talk	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 talk	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 talk	nsubj
18	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	parataxis
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 talk	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looks	nsubj
21	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 talk	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looks	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 direction	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 direction	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 direction	det
28	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ground	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not look	future	a Navajo	into the face of the mother of Zuñi's wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
2	talk	present	Navajos = navajo	together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	present	Zuñi	on the ground or another direction	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme

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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 53