Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 28
They were used to having one price for things they wished to buy and never having the price changed.
Who acts: Indians, price · What happens: use, have, wish, buy, not have, change · To what, where: Indians, one price, things
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 (Indians, price), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 used | advcl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 price | nummod |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 price | nmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wished | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 having | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 having | advmod |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 buy | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 price | det |
| 18 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | nsubj |
| 19 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 having | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | Indians = indian | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | one price | for things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | Indians = indian | things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not have | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | change | past | the price | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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