Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 8

The best people had white clothes and very fine; that was why his fur was so soft and like the snow.

Who acts: best people, that, fur · What happens: have, be · To what, where: white clothes

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best people, that, fur), 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 people	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clothes	amod
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fine	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 why	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 why	cop
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 had	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fur	nmod:poss
15	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 soft	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 soft	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 soft	advmod
18	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 why	advcl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 snow	cc
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 snow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snow	det
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 soft	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the best people	white clothes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
2	is	past	that		why property	tree rules
3	is	past	rabbit's fur		the snow conj; soft property	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, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 8