Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 67

All the squaws have tried to make magic moccasins, but only Mukwa has ever worn them.

Who acts: squaws · What happens: try, make, wear · To what, where: magic moccasins, Mukwa

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 (squaws), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 squaws	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 squaws	det
3	squaws	squaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tried	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	aux
5	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moccasins	amod
9	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 worn	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 worn	cc
12	only	only	ADV	_	16 worn	advmod
13	Mukwa	Mukwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 worn	nsubj:pass
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 worn	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 worn	advmod
16	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tried	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 worn	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · perfect	all squaws				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	all squaws not said here	magic moccasins			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset moccasin=Product
3	wear	present · perfect · passive		Mukwa	ever	moccasins = moccasin obj	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, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 67