Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 27
The rest was a kind of sorcery; but with the herbs, fresh air, and fresh water they managed to cure many ills.
Who acts: rest, herbs · What happens: be, manage, cure · To what, where: kind, fresh water, many ills
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: who acts (rest, herbs), 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 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sorcery | case |
| 7 | sorcery | sorcery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 herbs | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 herbs | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 herbs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herbs | det |
| 12 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kind | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 air | punct |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 air | amod |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 herbs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 water | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 water | cc |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 herbs | conj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 managed | nsubj |
| 21 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 water | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cure | mark |
| 23 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 managed | xcomp |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ills | amod |
| 25 | ills | ill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cure | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the rest | a kind but the herbs and fresh air and fresh water | of sorcery; the herbs and fresh air and fresh water conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | manage | past | herbs = herb | fresh water not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | herbs = herb not said here | many ills | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer ill=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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