Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 7
His paper was birch bark; his ink the juices of berries and weeds.
Who acts: paper · What happens: be · To what, where: birch bark
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paper), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 paper | nmod:poss |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bark | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bark | cop |
| 4 | birch | birch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bark | amod |
| 5 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ink | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ink | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bark | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 juices | det |
| 10 | juices | juice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bark | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 berries | case |
| 12 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 juices | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 weeds | cc |
| 14 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 berries | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Georgia's paper | birch bark and Georgia's ink | the juices of berries and weeds nmod; Georgia's ink conj | tree rules |
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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