Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 41
They raise turkeys, and, as they are good weavers, they sometimes use the turkey feathers in weaving a downy cloth.
Who acts: Pueblos · What happens: raise, be, use, weave · To what, where: turkeys, turkey feathers, downy cloth
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raise | nsubj |
| 2 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | turkeys | turkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 raise | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 use | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 and | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 weavers | case |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 weavers | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 weavers | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weavers | amod |
| 11 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weavers | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 use | nsubj |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 use | advmod |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 raise | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feathers | det |
| 17 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feathers | compound |
| 18 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | obj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 weaving | mark |
| 20 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 use | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cloth | det |
| 22 | downy | downy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cloth | amod |
| 23 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 weaving | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | Pueblos = pueblo | turkeys | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turkey=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Pueblos = pueblo | as good weavers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present | Pueblos = pueblo | the turkey feathers | sometimes property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | |||
| 4 | weave | gerund | Pueblos = pueblo not said here | a downy cloth | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=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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