Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 13

This story tells us also that there are those among the red men who, while they may be dressed in paint, buckskin, and blankets, have thoughts like those expressed by the white man’s poets.

Who acts: story, those, blankets · What happens: tell, be, dress, have, express · To what, where: us, red men, paint, thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Custer’s Heart. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, those, blankets), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	also	also	ADV	_	3 tells	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 are	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	ccomp
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 are	nsubj
10	among	among	ADP	_	13 men	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	amod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dressed	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dressed	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 dressed	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dressed	nsubj:pass
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 dressed	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 dressed	aux:pass
20	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 men	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 paint	case
22	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dressed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 buckskin	punct
24	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paint	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
27	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 blankets	punct
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	parataxis
30	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 those	case
32	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 thoughts	nmod
33	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 those	acl
34	by	by	ADP	_	39 poets	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 poets	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 man	case
39	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 expressed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	this story		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	present	those			there	among the red men	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location
3	dress	may · passive		the red men		paint and buckskin	flowers = flower nsubj:pass	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	have	present	blankets	thoughts			like those	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
5	express	participle					by the white man's poets	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 13