Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 23
Smaller belts were woven for the chiefs to wear, and the women made themselves bracelets and neck chains of the beads.
Who acts: women · What happens: weave, wear, make · To what, where: Smaller belts, belts
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 (women), 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 | Smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 belts | amod |
| 2 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woven | aux:pass |
| 4 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 chiefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chiefs | det |
| 7 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 woven | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wear | mark |
| 9 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 woven | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 women | det |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woven | parataxis |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 chains | cc |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chains | compound |
| 19 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bracelets | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 beads | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beads | det |
| 22 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chains | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past · passive | Smaller belts | for the chiefs | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for chief=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | the women | belts = belt | bracelets and neck chains of the beads obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary bracelet=Product |
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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