Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 15
The Pueblos weave excellent woolen blankets of gay stripes and a coarse cloth for wearing apparel.
Who acts: Pueblos · What happens: weave, wear · To what, where: excellent woolen blankets, apparel
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 (Pueblos), 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 Pueblos | det |
| 2 | Pueblos | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weave | nsubj |
| 3 | weave | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blankets | amod |
| 5 | woolen | woolen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blankets | amod |
| 6 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stripes | case |
| 8 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stripes | amod |
| 9 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blankets | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cloth | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cloth | det |
| 12 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloth | amod |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stripes | conj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 wearing | mark |
| 15 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 weave | advcl |
| 16 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wearing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | present | the Pueblos | excellent woolen blankets of gay stripes and a coarse cloth | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Product | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | the Pueblos not said here | apparel | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent apparel=Source |
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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