Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 32
Their hogans, or homes, are not so well made as the Zuñis’ adobe houses; they are low adobe huts.
Who acts: hogans · What happens: not make, be · To what, where: hogans, low adobe huts
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 (hogans), 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 | 2 hogans | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hogans | hogan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 homes | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 homes | cc |
| 5 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hogans | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hogans | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 made | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 well | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 houses | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Zuñis | det |
| 14 | Zuñis | Zuñis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 houses | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 14 Zuñis | case |
| 16 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 houses | compound |
| 17 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 huts | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 huts | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 huts | cop |
| 21 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 huts | amod |
| 22 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 huts | compound |
| 23 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · passive | dishes's hogans or homes | as the Zuñis's adobe houses; well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | hogans = hogan | low adobe huts | tree rules |
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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