Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 20
Kacluge fed him with white corn meal mixed with pure water.
Who acts: Kacluge · What happens: feed, mix · To what, where: man, white corn meal
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 (Kacluge), 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 | Kacluge | Kacluge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fed | nsubj |
| 2 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fed | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 meal | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meal | amod |
| 6 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meal | compound |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fed | obl |
| 8 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 meal | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mixed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | Kacluge | man | with white corn meal | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | white corn meal not said here | with pure water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with water=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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