Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 7
They have had time to invent things that astonish the white men who have seen only the Indians of the wandering tribes.
Who acts: Pueblos, things, white men · What happens: have, invent, astonish, see, wonder · To what, where: things, white men, Indians
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, things, white men), 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 | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 invent | mark |
| 6 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 invent | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 astonish | nsubj |
| 9 | astonish | astonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 astonish | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 men | acl:relcl |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 Indians | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Indians | det |
| 18 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tribes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tribes | det |
| 21 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 tribes | amod |
| 22 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Indians | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | Pueblos = pueblo | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | invent | to-infinitive | Pueblos = pueblo not said here | things | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Result | ||||
| 3 | astonish | present | things | the white men | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | the white men | the Indians of the wandering tribes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indian=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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