Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 5
They once believed that everything had its manitou, or spirit, which took care of it, but by their contact with the white people they have lost much of their fear of these manitous, and also much of their faith in their power.
Who acts: Indians, everything, spirit, matter · What happens: believe, have, take, lose, care, contact · To what, where: manitou, care, much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, everything, spirit, matter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 believed | advmod |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | ccomp |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 manitou | nmod:poss |
| 8 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spirit | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 spirit | cc |
| 11 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 care | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lost | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 lost | cc |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 contact | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 contact | nmod:poss |
| 22 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lost | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 people | det |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 contact | nmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lost | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 lost | aux |
| 29 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 believed | parataxis |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lost | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 fear | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fear | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 much | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 manitous | mark |
| 35 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 manitous | det |
| 36 | manitous | manitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fear | acl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 much | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 much | cc |
| 39 | also | also | ADV | _ | 40 much | advmod |
| 40 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lost | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 faith | case |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 faith | nmod:poss |
| 43 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 much | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 power | case |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 power | nmod:poss |
| 46 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 faith | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Indians = indian | once property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | everything | matter's manitou | spirit conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manitou=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | spirit | care of matter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | present · perfect | Indians = indian | much of Indians's fear | by Indians's contact with the white people | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | care | matter | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | contact | Indians = indian | with the white people | nom contact «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | |||||
| 7 | fear | Indians = indian | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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