Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 106
It was like a wide buffalo skin; she made dresses for herself and her daughters out of it.
Who acts: leaf, Lame · What happens: be, make · To what, where: dresses, leaf
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, Lame), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 skin | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 skin | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 skin | det |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 skin | amod |
| 6 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skin | compound |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 skin | acl:relcl |
| 11 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughters | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 herself | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 skin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | leaf | like a wide buffalo skin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Lame | dresses | leaf | for Lame | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dress=Material for herself=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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