Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 56

Indian customs and manners are taught to their children with just as much earnestness as white people teach their little ones.

Who acts: white people · What happens: teach · To what, where: Indian customs, children, little ones

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 (white people), 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	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 customs	amod
2	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taught	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 manners	cc
4	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 customs	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	aux:pass
6	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taught	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 earnestness	case
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 earnestness	amod
14	earnestness	earnestness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taught	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 teach	mark
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 teach	nsubj
18	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ones	nmod:poss
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ones	amod
21	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 teach	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · passive		Indian customs and manners	customs's children			with much earnestness	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to child=Recipient
2	teach speech: other	present	white people	customs's little ones					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 56