Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 3
He is helped by his people’s gods, who are like the creatures that live in his own country.
Who acts: gods, creatures · What happens: help, be, live · To what, where: person, own country
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 (gods, creatures), 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 | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 helped | aux:pass |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 gods | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 people | nmod:poss |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gods | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 people | case |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 creatures | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 creatures | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 creatures | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 creatures | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creatures | det |
| 14 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gods | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 live | nsubj |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 country | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · passive | person's people's gods and the creatures | person | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present | person's people's gods and the creatures | like the creatures | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the creatures | person's own country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
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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