Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 64
This the women could see; but they could not see that her fingers had been warm with love for her husband when she wove the quills into the leather and when she sewed it with the sinew.
Who acts: women, fingers, wife · What happens: see, not see, be, weave, sew · To what, where: quills, leather · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, fingers, wife), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 women | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 warm | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 warm | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 warm | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 warm | cop |
| 17 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warm | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warm | obl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 wove | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wove | nsubj |
| 25 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 quills | det |
| 27 | quills | quill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wove | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 leather | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 leather | det |
| 30 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wove | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sewed | cc |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 sewed | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sewed | nsubj |
| 34 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wove | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sewed | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 sinew | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sinew | det |
| 38 | sinew | sinew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sewed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | this women | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not see | could | women = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | wife's fingers | with love; for wife's husband; warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | weave | past | wife | the quills | the leather | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent quill=Material into leather=Product | |||
| 5 | sew | past | wife | leather | with the sinew | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with sinew=Co-Patient |
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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