Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 18
The pictorial features, therefore, reproduce with unusual fidelity the atmosphere of Indian life.
Who acts: pictorial features · What happens: reproduce · To what, where: atmosphere
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 (pictorial features), 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 features | det |
| 2 | pictorial | pictorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 features | compound |
| 3 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reproduce | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 features | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 reproduce | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 7 | reproduce | reproduce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fidelity | case |
| 9 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fidelity | amod |
| 10 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reproduce | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 atmosphere | det |
| 12 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reproduce | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 atmosphere | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reproduce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reproduce | infinitive | the pictorial features | the atmosphere of Indian life | with unusual fidelity; therefore property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Patient with fidelity=Instrument |
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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