Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 16
These Zuñi houses are built around two plazas, or squares, with several streets and covered ways to connect them with the other parts of the town.
What happens: build, cover, connect · To what, where: Zuñi houses, ways, houses
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: 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 houses | det |
| 2 | Zuñi | Zuñi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 houses | compound |
| 3 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 plazas | nummod |
| 8 | plazas | plaza | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 squares | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 squares | cc |
| 11 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plazas | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 streets | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 streets | case |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 streets | amod |
| 15 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | conj |
| 18 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 connect | mark |
| 20 | connect | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 covered | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 connect | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 parts | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 parts | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 parts | amod |
| 25 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 connect | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 town | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 town | det |
| 28 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 parts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | this Zuñi houses | with several streets; two plazas or squares obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary plaza=Product | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | ways | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | connect | to-infinitive | houses = house | with the other parts of the town | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with part=Co-Patient |
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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