Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 6
Dark-colored parts of the shells from which the beads were made were called black, but they were really dark shades of purple.
Who acts: beads · What happens: color, make, call, be · To what, where: beads, shells, colored parts, dark shades · 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 (beads), 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 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colored | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dark | punct |
| 3 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 parts | amod |
| 4 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shells | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shells | det |
| 7 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 parts | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 made | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beads | det |
| 11 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shells | acl:relcl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shades | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 shades | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shades | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 shades | cop |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 dark | advmod |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shades | amod |
| 23 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 called | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 purple | case |
| 25 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shades | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the beads | the shells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from which=Material | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | colored parts of the shells | black property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | beads = bead | dark shades | of purple | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/9/6/