Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 21

The stones are also cut on one side to make them of different value according to the meaning of the marks cut.

Who acts: marks · What happens: cut, make, accord · To what, where: stones, one side, meaning

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marks), 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 stones	det
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux:pass
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 side	nummod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 value	case
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 value	amod
14	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obl
15	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 meaning	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 according	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meaning	det
18	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 marks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 marks	det
21	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	nsubj
22	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 meaning	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	present · passive		the stones	one side		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	make	to-infinitive		stones = stone		of different value; accord the meaning	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	cut	present	the marks	the meaning not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meaning=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 21

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 21