Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 14

The squaw gathered these plants and did as he told her with them; the sores on his feet were healed and he was better very soon.

Who acts: squaw · What happens: gather, do, tell, heal, be · To what, where: plants, family, sores · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squaw), 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 squaw	det
2	squaw	squaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 plants	det
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gathered	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 did	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 healed	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sores	det
16	sores	sore	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 healed	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sores	nmod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 healed	aux:pass
21	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gathered	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 better	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 better	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 better	cop
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 healed	parataxis
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 soon	advmod
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 better	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the squaw	this plants			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
2	do	past	the squaw not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	squaw		family	with plants = plant	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	heal	past · passive		the sores on squaw's feet			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	is	past	squaw			good, soon property	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, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 14