Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 25
It seems strange that their crude tools could have made such small beads so very well.
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, make · To what, where: crude tools
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tools | nmod:poss |
| 6 | crude | crude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tools | amod |
| 7 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seems | advcl |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beads | amod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beads | amod |
| 13 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 well | advmod |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 well | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 seems | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | strange, well property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | could · perfect · passive | Indians's crude tools | such small beads obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bead=Product |
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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