Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 21
No white man taught this ancient people these arts of weaving.
Who acts: white man · What happens: teach · To what, where: arts, ancient people
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 (white man), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | nsubj |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 people | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taught | obj |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 arts | det |
| 9 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taught | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 weaving | case |
| 11 | weaving | weaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arts | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | no white man | this arts of weaving | this ancient people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient art=Topic |
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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