Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 2
They have built adobe houses for many centuries.
What happens: build · To what, where: Indians
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 houses | compound |
| 5 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 centuries | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centuries | amod |
| 8 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · perfect · passive | Indians = indian | century | adobe houses obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary house=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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