Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 20
The natives will not sell them, for they are valuable family records.
Who acts: natives, poles · What happens: not sell, be · To what, where: poles
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives, poles), 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 natives | det |
| 2 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sell | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sell | advmod |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 records | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 records | case |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 records | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 records | cop |
| 11 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 records | amod |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 records | compound |
| 13 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sell | future | the natives | poles = pole | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | poles = pole | for valuable family records | 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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