Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 50
Some of these whites have returned and have written books about the people of whose home life they have learned so much.
Who acts: people · What happens: return, write, learn · To what, where: Some, books, home life
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 (people), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 whites | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 whites | det |
| 4 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | aux |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 written | cc |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 written | aux |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 returned | conj |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 written | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 books | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 life | compound |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learned | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 learned | aux |
| 20 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 life | acl:relcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 learned | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present · perfect · passive | Some of this whites | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | write | present · perfect | books | about the people of the people of the people's home life's home life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about people=Topic | ||||
| 3 | learn | present · perfect | people | the people of the people of home life's home life's home life not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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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