Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 38
The Pueblos color the fibers in some manner and weave handsome borders of black, white, or yellow into their baskets.
Who acts: Pueblos · What happens: color, weave · To what, where: fibers, manner, handsome borders
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 (Pueblos), 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 Pueblos | det |
| 2 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 color | nsubj |
| 3 | color | color | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fibers | det |
| 5 | fibers | fiber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 color | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 manner | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 manner | det |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 color | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weave | cc |
| 10 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 color | conj |
| 11 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 borders | amod |
| 12 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 black | case |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 borders | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 white | punct |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 black | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yellow | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 yellow | cc |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 color | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 baskets | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 baskets | nmod:poss |
| 22 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 yellow | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 color | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | color | present | the Pueblos | the fibers | some manner | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiber=Patient | |||
| 2 | weave | infinitive | the Pueblos not said here | handsome borders of black | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Product |
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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