Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 11
All the water used in this elevated pueblo is carried up the seven hundred feet in clay ollas by the women.
Who acts: women · What happens: use, elevate, carry up · To what, where: water, elevated pueblo, clay ollas
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 water | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 water | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pueblo | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 pueblo | det |
| 7 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pueblo | amod |
| 8 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | aux:pass |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feet | det |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 feet | nummod |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ollas | case |
| 17 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ollas | compound |
| 18 | ollas | olla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 women | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 women | det |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | all water not said here | this elevated pueblo | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | elevate | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | carry up | present · passive | the women | all water | clay ollas | the hundred feet obl:unmarked | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Value in olla=Location |
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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