Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 6

The paleface must show himself a very good friend indeed before he is allowed to hear the stories told to native guests or to the children.

Who acts: paleface · What happens: show, allow, hear, tell · To what, where: good friend, paleface, stories, native guests · 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 (paleface), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paleface	det
2	paleface	paleface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 show	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obj
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 friend	advmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 allowed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allowed	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 allowed	aux:pass
14	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 show	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hear	mark
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allowed	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stories	det
18	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hear	obj
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 stories	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 guests	case
21	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 guests	amod
22	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 told	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 children	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 children	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 children	det
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 guests	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	show	must	the paleface	a good friend	paleface	tree rules
2	allow	present · passive		paleface		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	paleface not said here	the stories		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	participle		the stories not said here	native guests or the children	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to guest=Recipient

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, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 6