Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 16

One man pictured on the belt wears a hat, while the other does not; this shows that one was a white man, the other an Indian.

Who acts: One man, other, this, one · What happens: picture, wear, not do, show, be · To what, where: One man, belt, hat, white man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Wampum Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One man, other, this, one), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 man	nummod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wears	nsubj
3	pictured	picture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 man	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 belt	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 belt	det
6	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pictured	obl
7	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hat	det
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wears	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 does	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 does	nsubj
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wears	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 does	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 shows	punct
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 shows	nsubj
18	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wears	conj
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shows	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 other	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	nmod
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Indian	det
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 other	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	participle		One man not said here	the belt		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	wear	present	One man	a hat			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
3	not do	present	the other				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	show	present	this				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	that one	a white man		the other nmod	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, Wampum Money, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 16