Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 29
The early races of white people in all ancient lands used stone for many purposes.
Who acts: early races, white people · What happens: use, race · To what, where: stone
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (early races, white people), 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 | 3 races | det |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 races | amod |
| 3 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 races | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lands | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 lands | det |
| 9 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lands | amod |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 people | nmod |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 purposes | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 purposes | amod |
| 15 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the early races of white people in all ancient lands | stone | for many purposes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent stone=Theme for purpose=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | race | white people in all ancient lands | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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