Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 33

The Indian pony is thought to be descended from the horses brought to America by the Spanish explorers.

Who acts: horses · What happens: think, descend, bring · To what, where: Indian pony, America

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 (horses), 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 pony	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pony	amod
3	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux:pass
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 descended	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 descended	aux:pass
8	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thought	xcomp
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 brought	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	nsubj
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 descended	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 America	case
14	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 explorers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 explorers	det
17	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 explorers	amod
18	explorers	explorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · passive		the Indian pony			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	descend	to-infinitive · passive					vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»
3	bring	past	the horses		America	by the Spanish explorers	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to america=Destination

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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 33