Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 13

The Mokis are a very devout people, and their young men are taught daily in the kivas, or secret rooms, by the wise old men all the sacred rites and wisdom of their fathers.

Who acts: Mokis, wise old men · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: devout people, young men, kivas

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 (Mokis, wise old men), 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	2 Mokis	det
2	Mokis	Mokis	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 people	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 people	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 people	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 devout	advmod
6	devout	devout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taught	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 taught	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 men	nmod:poss
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 taught	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 taught	aux:pass
14	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 people	acl:relcl
15	daily	daily	ADV	_	14 taught	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 kivas	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kivas	det
18	kivas	kiva	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 taught	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rooms	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 rooms	cc
21	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rooms	amod
22	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kivas	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 men	punct
24	by	by	ADP	_	28 men	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 men	det
26	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 taught	obl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 rites	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rites	det
31	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rites	amod
32	rites	rite	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 men	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wisdom	cc
34	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rites	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fathers	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fathers	nmod:poss
37	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 wisdom	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Mokis	a devout people					tree rules
2	teach speech: other	present · passive	the wise old men and all sacred rites and wisdom of men's fathers	people's young men		the kivas		daily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=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 Moki Indians, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 13