Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 31
Other strings of different lengths or colors meant various things to the owners and those about them.
Who acts: Other strings · What happens: mean · To what, where: various 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 (Other strings), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 strings | amod |
| 2 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lengths | case |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lengths | amod |
| 5 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 strings | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 colors | cc |
| 7 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lengths | conj |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meant | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 owners | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 owners | det |
| 13 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meant | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 those | cc |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 owners | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 those | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | Other strings of different lengths or colors | various things | to the owners those about things | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme to owner=Attribute |
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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