Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 10

Fish-hooks were made of bone or flint, and spear points were of the same materials, but they were very sharp and with them the Indians caught many fish.

Who acts: spear points, points, Indians · What happens: make, be, catch · To what, where: Fish hooks, many fish

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spear points, points, 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	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hooks	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Fish	punct
3	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bone	case
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 flint	cc
9	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bone	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 materials	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 materials	cc
12	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 points	compound
13	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 materials	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 materials	cop
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 materials	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 materials	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 materials	amod
18	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sharp	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 sharp	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sharp	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sharp	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 sharp	advmod
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 caught	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 caught	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Indians	det
29	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 caught	nsubj
30	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sharp	conj
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fish	amod
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 caught	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Fish hooks	of bone or flint	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is	past	spear points		of the same materials	tree rules
3	is	past	points = point		sharp property	tree rules
4	catch	past	the Indians	many fish	with points = point	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

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, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 10