Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 6

A white man, who proved himself a true friend to the Leni Lennapes, gained their confidence and they told him the secrets that were kept by the painted sticks.

Who acts: white man, Men, painted sticks · What happens: prove, gain, tell, keep, paint, confide · To what, where: Leni, confidence, secrets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white man, Men, painted sticks), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gained	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proved	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 proved	nsubj
6	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 man	acl:relcl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 proved	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 friend	det
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proved	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Lennapes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lennapes	det
13	Leni	Leni	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Lennapes	compound
14	Lennapes	lennape	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 friend	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
16	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 confidence	nmod:poss
18	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gained	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gained	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 secrets	det
24	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 told	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 kept	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kept	aux:pass
27	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 secrets	acl:relcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 sticks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sticks	det
30	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 sticks	amod
31	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kept	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	prove	past	a white man	Leni		a true friend obj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme friend=Attribute
2	gain	past	a white man	Men's confidence			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Men = man	the secrets	Leni		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient secret=Topic
4	keep	past · passive	the painted sticks	the secrets			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	paint	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	confide		Men = man				nom confidence «cognition transitive»: 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 6

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 6