Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 22

Clay dishes, mortars, and pestles of stone, large sea-shells cut into shapes for holding food, stone axes, and knives show some of the skill of these early Americans.

Who acts: Clay dishes · What happens: cut, hold, show · To what, where: large sea shells, food, some

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 (Clay dishes), 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	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dishes	compound
2	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 show	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mortars	punct
4	mortars	mortar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dishes	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pestles	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pestles	cc
7	pestles	pestle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dishes	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stone	case
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pestles	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shells	punct
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shells	amod
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shells	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sea	punct
14	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dishes	conj
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 shells	acl
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 shapes	case
17	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cut	obl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 holding	mark
19	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 cut	advcl
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holding	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 axes	punct
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 axes	compound
23	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 food	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 show	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 show	cc
26	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 show	nsubj
27	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 show	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 skill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 skill	det
31	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 some	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 Americans	case
33	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 Americans	nsubj
34	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Americans	amod
35	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 skill	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		large sea shells not said here	into shapes	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into shape=Patient
2	hold	gerund		food and stone axes		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	show	present	Clay dishes and mortars and pestles of stone and large sea shells	some of the skill of early Americans these	knives nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Recipient

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 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 22