Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 16
How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants 130 XVIII.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: come, know · To what, where: Medicine Plants
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indians | det |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | xcomp |
| 7 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Plants | compound |
| 8 | Plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | obj |
| 9 | 130 | 130 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Plants | flat |
| 10 | XVIII | XVIII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 130 | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Indians | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | the Indians not said here | Medicine Plants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus |
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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