Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 57

The priests of the tribe use these kivas in giving instructions in the secret rites of their religious orders to the young men of the tribe.

Who acts: priests · What happens: use, give, order · To what, where: kivas, instructions, young men, secret rites

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priests), 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 priests	det
2	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tribe	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tribe	det
5	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 priests	nmod
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 kivas	det
8	kivas	kiva	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obj
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 giving	mark
10	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 use	advcl
11	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 giving	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 rites	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rites	det
14	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rites	amod
15	rites	rite	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 giving	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 orders	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 orders	nmod:poss
18	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 orders	amod
19	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rites	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 men	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 giving	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 tribe	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tribe	det
26	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 men	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	use	infinitive	the priests of the tribe	this kivas			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiva=Patient
2	give	gerund	the priests of the tribe not said here	instructions	the young men of the tribe	the secret rites of priests's religious orders	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme to man=Recipient
3	order		priests = priest				nom order «communication 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, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 57