Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 17
These bahos are always planted two or three times a year by the water ways, to do reverence to the water god who shows himself in the lightning.
Who acts: water ways, water god · What happens: plant, do, show · To what, where: bahos, reverence, prayer
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 (water ways, water god), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 bahos | det |
| 2 | bahos | baho | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 planted | aux:pass |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 planted | advmod |
| 5 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 three | cc |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 two | conj |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 planted | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 ways | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ways | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ways | compound |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 planted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 planted | parataxis |
| 19 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 god | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 god | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 god | compound |
| 23 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 shows | nsubj |
| 25 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 god | acl:relcl |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 shows | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 lightning | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lightning | det |
| 29 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shows | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | present · passive | the water ways | this bahos | time | always property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | reverence | to the water god | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | show | present | the water god | prayer | in the lightning | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in lightning=Topic |
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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