Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 15
Attention is called to the very interesting pictures on pages 17, 43, 53, 55, 89, 100, 173, and 188, which are from photographs taken by George Wharton James, of Pasadena, Cal., the noted authority upon Indian life and basketry.
What happens: call, be, take, note · To what, where: Attention, interesting pictures, photographs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pictures | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pictures | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 interesting | advmod |
| 7 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pictures | amod |
| 8 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 pages | case |
| 10 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pictures | nmod |
| 11 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 pages | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 43 | punct |
| 13 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 17 | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 53 | punct |
| 15 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 17 | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 55 | punct |
| 17 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 17 | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 89 | punct |
| 19 | 89 | 89 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 17 | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 100 | punct |
| 21 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 17 | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 173 | punct |
| 23 | 173 | 173 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 17 | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 188 | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 188 | cc |
| 26 | 188 | 188 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 called | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 photographs | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 photographs | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 photographs | cop |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 photographs | case |
| 31 | photographs | photograph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 188 | appos |
| 32 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 photographs | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 George | case |
| 34 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 taken | obl:agent |
| 35 | Wharton | Wharton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 George | flat |
| 36 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 George | flat |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Pasadena | punct |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Pasadena | case |
| 39 | Pasadena | Pasadena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 George | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Cal | punct |
| 41 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 George | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 authority | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 authority | det |
| 45 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 authority | amod |
| 46 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 47 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 49 life | case |
| 48 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 life | amod |
| 49 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 authority | nmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 basketry | cc |
| 51 | basketry | basketry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 life | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Attention | the interesting pictures on pages | the noted authority upon Indian life and basketry obl; 188 parataxis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to picture=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | photographs | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | participle | photographs not said here | George and Pasadena and Cal obl:agent | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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