Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn, sentence 20
He had a red feather in his scalp lock.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: have · To what, where: red feather, scalp lock
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feather | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feather | amod |
| 5 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lock | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lock | nmod:poss |
| 8 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lock | compound |
| 9 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | stranger | a red feather | stranger's scalp lock | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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