Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 45
The young braves put on their war paint.
What happens: put · To what, where: young braves, war paint
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. 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 | 3 braves | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 braves | amod |
| 3 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 braves | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 paint | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 paint | nmod:poss |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paint | compound |
| 8 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 braves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the young braves not said here | braves's war paint | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on paint=Destination |
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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