Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 1

An Indian in his native costume is a subject artists are glad to paint,—tanned buckskin trousers with the buckskin fringe down the outside seams; buckskin moccasins with colored porcupine quills neatly woven into the leather in regular patterns, and a heavy blanket or buffalo robe over his shoulders, hanging nearly to the ground.

Who acts: subject artists · What happens: be, paint, tan, weave, hang · To what, where: buckskin moccasins, buckskin trousers, colored porcupine quills, leather

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subject artists), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Indian	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 glad	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 costume	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 costume	nmod:poss
5	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 costume	amod
6	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Indian	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 glad	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 artists	det
9	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 artists	compound
10	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 glad	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 glad	cop
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 paint	mark
14	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 glad	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tanned	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 tanned	punct
17	tanned	tan	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 paint	conj
18	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trousers	compound
19	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tanned	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 fringe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fringe	det
22	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fringe	compound
23	fringe	fringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tanned	obl
24	down	down	ADP	_	27 seams	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seams	det
26	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 seams	amod
27	seams	seam	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fringe	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 moccasins	punct
29	buckskin	buckskin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 moccasins	amod
30	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 paint	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 quills	case
32	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 quills	amod
33	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 quills	compound
34	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 moccasins	nmod
35	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	36 woven	advmod
36	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 quills	acl
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 leather	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 leather	det
39	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 woven	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 patterns	case
41	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 patterns	amod
42	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 leather	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 robe	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 robe	cc
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 blanket	det
46	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 blanket	amod
47	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 robe	compound
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 buffalo	cc
49	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 blanket	conj
50	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paint	obl
51	over	over	ADP	_	53 shoulders	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 shoulders	nmod:poss
53	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 robe	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 hanging	punct
55	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 paint	conj
56	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	59 ground	advmod
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 ground	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ground	det
59	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hanging	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a subject artists			glad property	tree rules
2	paint	to-infinitive	a subject artists not said here	buckskin moccasins with colored porcupine quills		blanket robe over his shoulders obl	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tan	past	a subject artists not said here	buckskin trousers		with the buckskin fringe down the outside seams	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent trousers=Patient with fringe=Instrument
4	weave	participle		colored porcupine quills not said here	the leather in regular patterns	neatly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into leather=Destination
5	hang	gerund	a subject artists not said here			to the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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, The Indian At Home, sentence 1

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 1