Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 23
They sell or trade these blankets to Indians of many other tribes.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: sell, trade · To what, where: blankets, Indians
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 trade | cc |
| 4 | trade | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sell | conj |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 blankets | det |
| 6 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 trade | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Indians | case |
| 8 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 trade | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tribes | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tribes | amod |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tribes | amod |
| 12 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Indians | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | Indians = indian | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | trade | present | Indians = indian not said here | this blankets | Indians of many other tribes | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/17/23/