Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 21
They wear blankets and buckskin skirts, and make a pretty picture if the wigwam is in the background.
Who acts: women, wigwam · What happens: wear, make, be · To what, where: blankets, pretty picture, background
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 (women, wigwam), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wear | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 skirts | cc |
| 5 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skirts | compound |
| 6 | skirts | skirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blankets | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wear | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 picture | det |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 picture | amod |
| 12 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 background | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wigwam | det |
| 15 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 background | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 background | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 background | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 background | det |
| 19 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | women = woman | blankets and buckskin skirts | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent blanket=Source | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | women = woman not said here | a pretty picture | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the wigwam | the background | tree rules |
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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