Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 37
This plant, sometimes called the Spanish bayonet, from its sharp-pointed leaves, grows to a great size on the plains.
Who acts: plant · What happens: call, grow · To what, where: Spanish bayonet, pointed leaves, plains · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (plant), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 plant | det |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 called | advmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 plant | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bayonet | det |
| 7 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bayonet | amod |
| 8 | bayonet | bayonet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaves | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 leaves | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pointed | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sharp | punct |
| 14 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leaves | amod |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 plant | punct |
| 17 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 size | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 size | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 size | amod |
| 21 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grows | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 plains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plains | det |
| 24 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grows | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | this plant not said here | the Spanish bayonet | plant's pointed leaves | sometimes property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from leaf=Source | ||
| 2 | grow | present | this plant | the plains | to a great size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Location |
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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