Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 20
They cannot use it; but the money they get for it buys food and clothes for them and their relatives.
Who acts: squaws, money · What happens: not use, get, buy · To what, where: lace, money, food
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squaws, money), 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 | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 use | advmod |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 buys | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 buys | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 money | det |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buys | nsubj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 money | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod |
| 14 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | parataxis |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buys | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clothes | cc |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 food | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 buys | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 relatives | cc |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 22 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 them | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | can | squaws = squaw | lace | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | present | squaws = squaw | the money for lace not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | buy | present | the money for lace | food and clothes | for squaws = squaw | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
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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