Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 43
They are not Village Indians, yet are noted for their fine basket weaving.
Who acts: Pueblos, fine basket · What happens: not be, note, weave
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 (Pueblos, fine basket), 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 | 4 Village | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Village | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 Village | advmod |
| 4 | Village | village | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Village | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 noted | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 9 noted | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 noted | aux:pass |
| 9 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Village | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 basket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 basket | amod |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noted | obl |
| 14 | weaving | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 basket | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Village | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Pueblos = pueblo | Indians obl; village property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | note | present · passive | Pueblos = pueblo not said here | for Pueblos's fine basket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 3 | weave | gerund | Pueblos's fine basket not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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