Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 14

He dried his hands with meal and painted his face with white earth; then he was fair as a white man.

Who acts: Butterfly · What happens: dry, paint, be · To what, where: hands, face

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 (Butterfly), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dried	nsubj
2	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dried	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 meal	case
6	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dried	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 painted	cc
8	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dried	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 face	nmod:poss
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painted	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 earth	case
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 earth	amod
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painted	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fair	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 fair	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fair	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fair	cop
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dried	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 man	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fair	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dry	past	Butterfly	Butterfly's hands		with meal	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with meal=Instrument
2	paint	past	Butterfly not said here	Butterfly's face		with white earth	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with earth=Theme
3	is	past	Butterfly		then	as a white man; fair property	tree rules

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, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 14