Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 17
The tall, curiously carved totem poles of Alaska are really carved family histories.
What happens: carve · To what, where: totem poles
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tall | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carved | punct |
| 4 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 5 carved | advmod |
| 5 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tall | conj |
| 6 | totem | totem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poles | compound |
| 7 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carved | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Alaska | case |
| 9 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 poles | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 carved | aux:pass |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 carved | advmod |
| 12 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carved | conj |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 histories | compound |
| 14 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carved | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | curiously property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carve | present · passive | totem poles of Alaska | family histories obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary history=Product |
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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