Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 29
Their very best work is of a cream-white color, and the vases and dishes are handsomely decorated with colored borders and pictures.
Who acts: best work, dishes · What happens: be, decorate, work · To what, where: vases
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 (best work, dishes), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 work | nmod:poss |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 best | advmod |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 work | amod |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 color | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 color | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 color | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 color | det |
| 8 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 white | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 cream | punct |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 color | amod |
| 11 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 decorated | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 decorated | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vases | det |
| 15 | vases | vas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dishes | cc |
| 17 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 vases | conj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 decorated | aux:pass |
| 19 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 20 decorated | advmod |
| 20 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 color | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 borders | case |
| 22 | colored | colored | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 borders | compound |
| 23 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 decorated | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pictures | cc |
| 25 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 borders | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 color | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | dishes's best work | of a white color | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decorate | present · passive | the vases and dishes | with colored borders and pictures; handsomely property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with border=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | dishes = dish | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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