Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 17
The flint stones were not good tools, and the Indians would use only perfect beads.
Who acts: flint stones, Indians · What happens: not be, use · To what, where: good tools, perfect beads
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Wampum or Indian Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flint stones, Indians), 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 | 3 stones | det |
| 2 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stones | compound |
| 3 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tools | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tools | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 tools | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tools | amod |
| 7 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 use | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Indians | det |
| 11 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 use | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 use | aux |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tools | parataxis |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 beads | advmod |
| 15 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beads | amod |
| 16 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tools | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the flint stones | good tools | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | would | the Indians | perfect beads | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=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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