Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 5

The bows of strong wood bent by sinew cords and the stone-headed arrows with feather tips were excellent weapons in the Indians’ former methods of warfare and hunting, and a good arrowhead maker was famous throughout a nation.

Who acts: bows, good arrowhead maker · What happens: bend, head, be · To what, where: strong wood, excellent weapons, former methods

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 (bows, good arrowhead maker), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bows	det
2	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 weapons	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bows	nmod
6	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wood	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 cords	case
8	sinew	sinew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cords	compound
9	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bent	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 arrows	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 arrows	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 headed	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 stone	punct
14	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 arrows	amod
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cords	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 tips	case
17	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tips	compound
18	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arrows	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 weapons	cop
20	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 weapons	amod
21	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 methods	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Indians	det
24	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 methods	nmod:poss
25	’	's	PART	_	24 Indians	case
26	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 methods	amod
27	methods	method	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 weapons	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 warfare	case
29	warfare	warfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 methods	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hunting	cc
31	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 warfare	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 famous	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 famous	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 maker	det
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 maker	amod
36	arrowhead	arrowhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 maker	compound
37	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 famous	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 famous	cop
39	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 weapons	amod
40	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	42 nation	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 nation	det
42	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 famous	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 weapons	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle		strong wood not said here			by sinew cords and the headed arrows with feather tips	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cord=Location
2	head	participle					stone compound	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the bows of strong wood	excellent weapons	the Indians's former methods of warfare and hunting			tree rules
4	is	past	a good arrowhead maker			throughout a nation	famous property	tree rules

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 5

The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 5