Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 33
The Navajos find time and have the skill to do some very good work in metals, although their tools are rude.
Who acts: Navajos, tools · What happens: find, have, do, be · To what, where: skill, good work, metals
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 (Navajos, tools), 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 Navajos | det |
| 2 | Navajos | Navajo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skill | det |
| 8 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 skill | acl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 work | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 work | amod |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 metals | case |
| 16 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rude | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 rude | mark |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tools | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rude | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rude | cop |
| 22 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 do | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | the Navajos | time | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the Navajos not said here | the skill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the Navajos not said here | some good work | metals | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is | present | Navajos's tools | rude property | 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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