Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 16
They make water-tight baskets and dishes of fiber, and these are often exchanged with the Tent Indians for dried meat and other food.
Who acts: Pueblos, Tent Indians · What happens: make, exchange, dry · To what, where: tight baskets, these
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, Tent 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tight | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
| 5 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 baskets | amod |
| 6 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dishes | cc |
| 8 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 baskets | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fiber | case |
| 10 | fiber | fiber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dishes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exchanged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 exchanged | cc |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 exchanged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 exchanged | aux:pass |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 exchanged | advmod |
| 16 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 make | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Indians | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Indians | det |
| 19 | Tent | Tent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Indians | compound |
| 20 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 exchanged | obl:agent |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 meat | case |
| 22 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 meat | amod |
| 23 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exchanged | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 food | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 food | amod |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meat | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Pueblos = pueblo | tight baskets and dishes of fiber | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset basket=Product | ||||
| 2 | exchange | present · passive | the Tent Indians | these | for dried meat and other food; often property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for meat=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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