Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 19
These totem poles are usually put up before each native house.
What happens: put up · To what, where: totem poles, native house
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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 poles | det |
| 2 | totem | totem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poles | compound |
| 3 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 house | det |
| 10 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | present · passive | this totem poles | each native house | usually property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before house=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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