Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 9
This Indian town was sought for by Coronado and his Spanish soldiers.
Who acts: Coronado · What happens: seek · To what, where: Indian town
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 (Coronado), 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 | 3 town | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 town | amod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | aux:pass |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sought | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Coronado | case |
| 8 | Coronado | Coronado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 soldiers | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soldiers | amod |
| 12 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Coronado | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · passive | Coronado and Mexico's Spanish soldiers | this Indian town | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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