Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 2
The red man remembers the brave paleface as well as the warrior of his own race and color.
Who acts: red man, man · What happens: remember, race · To what, where: brave paleface
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 (red man, man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembers | nsubj |
| 4 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 paleface | det |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paleface | amod |
| 7 | paleface | paleface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembers | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 12 warrior | cc |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 warrior | det |
| 12 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paleface | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 race | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 race | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 race | amod |
| 16 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 warrior | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 color | cc |
| 18 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 race | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | the red man | the brave paleface as the warrior of man's own race and color | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent paleface=Theme | ||||
| 2 | race | man | nom race «event 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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