Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 19
Eagles are caged and raised for their long feathers, which are held sacred.
What happens: cage, raise, hold · To what, where: Eagles, long feathers
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caged | aux:pass |
| 3 | caged | cage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 raised | cc |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caged | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 feathers | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feathers | amod |
| 9 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 raised | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 held | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 held | aux:pass |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 held | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cage | present · passive | Eagles | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | raise | participle | for Eagles's long feathers | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | present · passive | Eagles's long feathers | sacred property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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