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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 2

The birch-bark canoe is light and very swift, and white hunters are proud of their skill in its use, but the skin boat has only strength as its merit.

Who acts: bark canoe, white hunters, skin boat, skill · What happens: be, have, use · To what, where: strength

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 (bark canoe, white hunters, skin boat, skill), 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

detcompoundpunctcompoundnsubjcopccadvmodconjpunctccamodnsubjcopconjcasenmod:possoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccdetcompoundnsubjparataxisadvmodobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETbirchNOUN-PUNCTbarkNOUNcanoeNOUNisAUXlightADJandCCONJveryADVswiftADJ,PUNCTandCCONJwhiteADJhuntersNOUNareAUXproudADJofADPtheirPRONskillNOUNinADPitsPRONuseNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETskinNOUNboatNOUNhasVERBonlyADVstrengthNOUNasADPitsPRONmeritNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 canoedet
2birchbirchNOUNNumber=Sing4 barkcompound
3--PUNCT_2 birchpunct
4barkbarkNOUNNumber=Sing5 canoecompound
5canoecanoeNOUNNumber=Sing7 lightnsubj
6isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 lightcop
7lightlightADJDegree=Posrootroot
8andandCCONJ_10 swiftcc
9veryveryADV_10 swiftadvmod
10swiftswiftADJDegree=Pos7 lightconj
11,,PUNCT_16 proudpunct
12andandCCONJ_16 proudcc
13whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos14 huntersamod
14huntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur16 proudnsubj
15arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 proudcop
16proudproudADJDegree=Pos7 lightconj
17ofofADP_19 skillcase
18theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 skillnmod:poss
19skillskillNOUNNumber=Sing16 proudobl
20ininADP_22 usecase
21itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 usenmod:poss
22useuseNOUNNumber=Sing19 skillnmod
23,,PUNCT_28 haspunct
24butbutCCONJ_28 hascc
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 boatdet
26skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing27 boatcompound
27boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing28 hasnsubj
28hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 lightparataxis
29onlyonlyADV_30 strengthadvmod
30strengthstrengthNOUNNumber=Sing28 hasobj
31asasADP_33 meritcase
32itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 meritnmod:poss
33meritmeritNOUNNumber=Sing28 hasobl
34..PUNCT_7 lightpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentthe bark canoelight propertytree rules
2bethe bark canoe not said heretree rules
3ispresentwhite huntersof canoes's skill in skill's use; proud propertytree rules
4havepresentthe skin boatstrengthas boat's meritvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
5useskillnom use «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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