Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 16
The copyrighted pictures on pages 43 and 55 are used in this book with his special permission.
Who acts: Attention · What happens: copyright, use, permit · To what, where: copyrighted pictures, book
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: who acts (Attention), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pictures | det |
| 2 | copyrighted | copyright | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pictures | amod |
| 3 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 pages | case |
| 5 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pictures | nmod |
| 6 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 pages | flat |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 55 | cc |
| 8 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 43 | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 used | aux:pass |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 book | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 used | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 permission | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 permission | nmod:poss |
| 16 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 permission | amod |
| 17 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 book | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copyright | participle | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | the copyrighted pictures on pages | this book with Attention's special permission | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | permit | Attention | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=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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