Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 16
In a few days he was taken with a fever; again he told the old squaw what plants and leaves to go out and gather for him.
Who acts: squaw · What happens: take, tell, go out, gather · To what, where: squaw, old squaw, plants · 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fever | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fever | det |
| 10 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 told | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 squaw | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 squaw | amod |
| 17 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 told | obj |
| 19 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 told | iobj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaves | cc |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 plants | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | ccomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gather | cc |
| 26 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gather | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | squaw | day | with a fever | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | squaw | the old squaw | plants and leaves | again | what obj | tree rules | |
| 3 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gather | infinitive | for squaw | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
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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