Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 55
They believe that the souls of the women of their tribe enter fish when they leave this world; and they rarely eat fish for that reason.
Who acts: Navajos, souls · What happens: believe, enter, leave, eat · To what, where: fish, world · 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 (Navajos, souls), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 enter | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 souls | det |
| 5 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 enter | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 women | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 women | det |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 souls | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tribe | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 women | nmod |
| 12 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 enter | obj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 leave | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | nsubj |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 enter | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 eat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eat | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | nsubj |
| 22 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 23 eat | advmod |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | conj |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eat | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 reason | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 reason | det |
| 27 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eat | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Navajos = navajo | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | enter | present | the souls of the women of Navajos's tribe | fish | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fish=Destination | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | Navajos = navajo | this world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | Navajos = navajo | fish | for that reason; rarely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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