Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 52

The Indian puts away his winter stores with much the same care that his white brother uses; he stores corn in pits that he digs in the earth.

Who acts: Indian, winter, white brother, brother · What happens: put away, store, use, dig · To what, where: same care, corn, pits, earth

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, winter, white brother, brother), 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 Indian	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 puts	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 winter	nmod:poss
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stores	nsubj
7	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 puts	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 care	case
9	much	much	ADV	_	12 care	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 care	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 care	amod
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stores	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 uses	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 uses	nsubj
17	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 care	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stores	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stores	nsubj
20	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 puts	conj
21	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stores	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 pits	case
23	pits	pit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stores	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 digs	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 digs	nsubj
26	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stores	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 earth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 earth	det
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 digs	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put away	present	the Indian			away property	tree rules
2	store	present	Winona's winter			with the same care	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	use	present	Winona's white brother	the same care			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	store	present	brother	corn	pits		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent corn=Theme in pit=Location
5	dig	present	brother		the earth		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location

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 Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 52