Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 7
The handsomely embroidered moccasins were and are now good specimens of woman’s work and love for beauty of coloring and design.
Who acts: embroidered moccasins, woman · What happens: embroider, be, work · To what, where: good specimens
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 (embroidered moccasins, woman), 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 | 4 moccasins | det |
| 2 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 3 embroidered | advmod |
| 3 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 moccasins | amod |
| 4 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 specimens | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 specimens | cop |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 specimens | cc |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 specimens | cop |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 good | advmod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 specimens | amod |
| 10 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 work | case |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 specimens | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 love | cc |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 beauty | case |
| 18 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 coloring | case |
| 20 | coloring | coloring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beauty | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 design | cc |
| 22 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beauty | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 specimens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | handsomely property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the embroidered moccasins | good specimens | now | of woman's work for beauty of coloring and design and love | tree rules | ||
| 3 | work | woman | for beauty of coloring and design | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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