Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 58

These may possibly be idols, but are not always, for both old and young sometimes play with them as toys.

Who acts: These, both · What happens: be, play · To what, where: idols, old

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 (These, both), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 idols	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 idols	aux
3	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	5 idols	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 idols	cop
5	idols	idol	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 play	cc
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 play	advcl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 always	advmod
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 are	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	18 play	case
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 play	nsubj
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 play	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 young	cc
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 old	conj
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 play	advmod
18	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idols	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 play	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 toys	case
22	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 play	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 idols	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	may	These	idols	possibly property	tree rules
2	be	present	both not said here		always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	present	both	old	with idols = idol; as toys; sometimes property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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.

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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 58