Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 14

An Indian teaches his children to tell the truth; his children are wise; they speak the truth to their tribe.

Who acts: Indian, children · What happens: teach, tell, be, speak · To what, where: children, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, children), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Indian	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teaches	nsubj
3	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 children	nmod:poss
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teaches	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 teaches	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 wise	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 children	nmod:poss
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wise	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wise	cop
14	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teaches	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 speak	nsubj
17	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 teaches	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truth	det
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speak	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 tribe	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tribe	nmod:poss
22	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speak	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 teaches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	a Indian		grandfather's children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a Indian not said here	the truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	is	present	grandfather's children			wise property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	present	children = child	the truth		to children's tribe	tree rules

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, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 14