Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 29
For this reason the early settlers were able to buy many valuable things at a very small price.
Who acts: early settlers · What happens: be, buy · To what, where: many valuable things, small price
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 (early settlers), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 reason | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 settlers | det |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 settlers | amod |
| 6 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 able | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 buy | mark |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 12 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 buy | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 price | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 price | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 small | advmod |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 price | amod |
| 18 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buy | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the early settlers | for this reason; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | the early settlers not said here | many valuable things | a small price | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at price=Asset |
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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