Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 31
You will show them the plants, roots, and leaves that can heal their sick people.”
Who acts: You, leaves · What happens: show, heal · To what, where: plants, sick people
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 (You, leaves), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 show | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plants | det |
| 6 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 roots | punct |
| 8 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plants | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heal | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heal | cc |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heal | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 heal | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 heal | aux |
| 14 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 show | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 people | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heal | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | You | plants = plant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | heal | can | leaves | leaves's sick people | that nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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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