Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 11
She found the red clay and the yellow for her husband’s war paint; he was a great warrior and wore two eagle feathers in his scalp lock.
Who acts: fishing, skin · What happens: find, be, wear · To what, where: red clay, great warrior, two eagle feathers, scalp lock
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishing, skin), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clay | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clay | amod |
| 5 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 yellow | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 yellow | det |
| 8 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clay | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 paint | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paint | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paint | compound |
| 14 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yellow | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 warrior | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 warrior | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 warrior | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 warrior | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 warrior | amod |
| 20 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wore | cc |
| 22 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 feathers | nummod |
| 24 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feathers | compound |
| 25 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wore | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 lock | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lock | nmod:poss |
| 28 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lock | compound |
| 29 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wore | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | fishing | the red clay | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | skin | a great warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | fishing not said here | two eagle feathers | skin's scalp lock | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Source |
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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