Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 1
The Navajos give a medicine dance and chant a long song when a sick person asks for this service.
Who acts: Navajos, sick person · What happens: give, chant, ask · To what, where: medicine dance, long song
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Navajo Medicine Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Navajos, sick person), 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 Navajos | det |
| 2 | Navajos | navajo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 5 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dance | compound |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chant | cc |
| 8 | chant | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 song | amod |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chant | obj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 asks | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 14 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 person | amod |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | nsubj |
| 16 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 chant | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 service | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 service | det |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the Navajos | a medicine dance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chant | present | the Navajos not said here | a long song | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | a sick person | for this service | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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