Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 22

Many of the babies have a decidedly Japanese look and are attractive little creatures, as babies are apt to be.

Who acts: Many babies, babies · What happens: have, be · To what, where: Japanese look, attractive little creatures

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many babies, babies), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 babies	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 babies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
7	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	_	8 Japanese	advmod
8	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	amod
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 creatures	cc
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 creatures	cop
12	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creatures	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creatures	amod
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 apt	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 apt	mark
17	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 apt	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 apt	cop
19	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 be	mark
21	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 apt	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Many babies	a Japanese look		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
2	is a	present	the Many babies not said here	attractive little creatures		tree rules
3	is	present	babies		apt property	tree rules
4	be	to-infinitive	babies not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 22