Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 22

One morning the old man told her that he had come to her village just to teach the people the secrets which she now knew.

Who acts: old man, man, nation · What happens: tell, come, teach, know · To what, where: nation, village, people, secrets · 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 (old man, man, nation), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 village	nmod:poss
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 teach	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 teach	mark
17	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 teach	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 secrets	det
21	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 people	conj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 knew	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 knew	advmod
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 secrets	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		nation		morning	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	man			nation's village		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	man not said here		the people and the secrets			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	know	past	nation	the secrets			now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 22