Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 10
The married women braid their hair and sometimes fasten it in a knot at the back of the head.
Who acts: married women · What happens: braid, fasten · To what, where: hair, knot
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (married women), 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 | 3 women | det |
| 2 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 women | amod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 braid | nsubj |
| 4 | braid | braid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 braid | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fasten | cc |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 fasten | advmod |
| 9 | fasten | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 braid | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fasten | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 knot | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knot | det |
| 13 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fasten | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 back | det |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knot | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 braid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | braid | present | the married women | women's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fasten | present | the married women not said here | hair | a knot at the back of the head | sometimes property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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