Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 11

The town of Zuñi is built upon a hill, about forty feet above the bank of the river Zuñi; it covers about fifteen acres.

Who acts: history · What happens: build, cover · To what, where: town, fifteen acres

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (history), 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 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Zuñi	case
4	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 town	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 built	aux:pass
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feet	punct
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 feet	nummod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 built	conj
14	above	above	ADP	_	16 bank	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bank	det
16	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feet	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bank	nmod
20	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 river	appos
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 covers	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 covers	nsubj
23	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 built	conj
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 fifteen	advmod
25	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 acres	nummod
26	acres	acre	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 covers	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		the town of Zuñi				upon a hill; forty feet above the bank of the river conj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	cover	present	history	fifteen acres					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme acre=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 Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 11