Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 3
For many years meat and flour were given to some tribes as rations at certain periods of the year, when they also received money and blankets.
Who acts: tribes · What happens: give, receive · To what, where: meat, tribes, certain periods, money
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribes), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obl |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flour | cc |
| 6 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meat | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tribes | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 tribes | det |
| 11 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 rations | case |
| 13 | rations | ration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 periods | case |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 periods | amod |
| 16 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 periods | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 received | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 received | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 received | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 received | advmod |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | conj |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 blankets | cc |
| 27 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 money | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | meat and flour | some tribes | certain periods of the year | year | as rations | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to tribe=Recipient at period=Asset | |
| 2 | receive | past | tribes = tribe | money and blankets | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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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