Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 7
The Moki maidens, like those of a few other tribes, do not leave their straight black hair hanging down their backs.
Who acts: Moki maidens, straight black hair · What happens: not leave, hang down · To what, where: straight black hair, backs
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 (Moki maidens, straight black hair), 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 maidens | det |
| 2 | Moki | Moki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 maidens | compound |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 those | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 maidens | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tribes | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tribes | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tribes | amod |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tribes | amod |
| 11 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 those | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 those | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leave | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 leave | advmod |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obj |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 hair | acl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 hanging | compound:prt |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 backs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hanging | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | infinitive · do-support | the Moki maidens like those of a few other tribes | maidens's straight black hair | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang down | gerund | maidens's straight black hair not said here | maidens's backs | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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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