Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 7
He could not be hurt except in one place; that was in the back of his head.
Who acts: that · What happens: not hurt, be · To what, where: Marie, back
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 place | nummod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 back | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 back | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | could · passive | Marie | except one place | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | the back | of Marie's head | 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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