Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 39
These are used for flour or meal holders, or for holding water, and are called ollas.
What happens: use, hold, call · To what, where: These, water, ollas · 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: 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 | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 flour | case |
| 5 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 holders | cc |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holders | compound |
| 8 | holders | holder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flour | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 holding | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 holding | cc |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 holding | mark |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 used | advcl |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 used | conj |
| 18 | ollas | olla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | These | for flour or meal holders | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for flour=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | ollas | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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