Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 26
The knowledge of medicine in all tribes was limited to a few herbs.
What happens: limit · To what, where: knowledge, few herbs
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knowledge | det |
| 2 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 limited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 medicine | case |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knowledge | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tribes | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 tribes | det |
| 7 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knowledge | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 limited | aux:pass |
| 9 | limited | limit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herbs | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 herbs | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 herbs | amod |
| 13 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 limited | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 limited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | limit | past · passive | the knowledge of medicine in all tribes | to a few herbs goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to herb=Goal |
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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