Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 5
In front of each wigwam was placed a skin on a pole to show what totem belonged to the family.
Who acts: totem · What happens: place, show, belong · To what, where: skin, front · 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 (totem), 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 | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wigwam | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 wigwam | det |
| 5 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 placed | aux:pass |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 skin | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 pole | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pole | det |
| 12 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 placed | advcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 belonged | obj |
| 16 | totem | totem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belonged | nsubj |
| 17 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 family | det |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belonged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | a skin | front of each wigwam | on a pole | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: skin=Theme on pole=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | belong | past | totem | to the family; what obj | 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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