Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 17
“His arms looked like wings, for plumed prayer-sticks were fastened to them in the Butterfly’s lodge.
Who acts: arms · What happens: look, plume, fasten · To what, where: plumed prayer sticks, arms, lodge
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 (arms), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arms | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 wings | case |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fastened | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 fastened | mark |
| 9 | plumed | plume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sticks | amod |
| 10 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sticks | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 prayer | punct |
| 12 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fastened | aux:pass |
| 14 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looked | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fastened | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 lodge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Butterfly | det |
| 19 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Butterfly | case |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fastened | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | past | Butterfly's arms | like wings | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | plume in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fasten in a quote | past · passive | plumed prayer sticks | arms = arm | the Butterfly's lodge | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to they=Co-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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