Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 61
The women tried to learn from his wife the secret of their making.
Who acts: women · What happens: try, learn, make
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 learn | mark |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 secret | det |
| 10 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 making | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 making | nmod:poss |
| 13 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 secret | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the women | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | the women not said here | from manitou's wife and the secret of women's making | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from wife=Source | ||||
| 3 | make | women = woman | nom making «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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