Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 6
The Moki weave blankets and cloth for dresses, which they exchange with other Pueblos for ponies, turquoise beads, and silver ornaments for neck or hair.
Who acts: Moki, blankets · What happens: weave, exchange · To what, where: blankets, dresses
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moki, blankets), 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 Moki | det |
| 2 | Moki | Moki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 weave | nsubj |
| 3 | weave | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weave | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cloth | cc |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blankets | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dresses | case |
| 8 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exchange | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 exchange | obj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 exchange | nsubj |
| 12 | exchange | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dresses | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Pueblos | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Pueblos | amod |
| 15 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 exchange | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ponies | case |
| 17 | ponies | pony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 exchange | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beads | punct |
| 19 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beads | compound |
| 20 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ponies | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ornaments | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ornaments | cc |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ornaments | compound |
| 24 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weave | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 neck | case |
| 26 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ornaments | nmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 hair | cc |
| 28 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 neck | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | present | the Moki | blankets and cloth | for dresses; silver ornaments for neck or hair obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blanket=Product for dress=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | exchange | present | blankets = blanket | dresses | with other Pueblos; for ponies and turquoise beads | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent which=Theme with pueblo=Co-Agent |
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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