Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 22

Each spring these Indians make large quantities of maple sugar, which they pack in mokuks, or birch-bark baskets, and sell or exchange at the stores in towns.

Who acts: spring, Indians · What happens: make, pack, sell, exchange · To what, where: large quantities, maple sugar, mokuks, stores

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring, Indians), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 spring	det
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 Indians	det
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quantities	amod
7	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sugar	case
9	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sugar	compound
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quantities	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pack	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 pack	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pack	nsubj
14	pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sugar	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 mokuks	case
16	mokuks	mokuk	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pack	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 baskets	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 baskets	cc
19	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bark	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 birch	punct
21	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 baskets	compound
22	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sell	cc
25	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 exchange	cc
27	exchange	exchange	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 sell	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 stores	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stores	det
30	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 exchange	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 towns	case
32	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stores	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	each spring	large quantities of maple sugar		bark baskets obl; this Indians nsubj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset quantity=Product
2	pack	present	Indians = indian	maple sugar	mokuks		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in mokuk=Destination
3	sell	infinitive					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	exchange	infinitive			the stores in towns		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 22