Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 14

Among the Mokis the kiva, or estufa, as the Spanish call it, is underground; among the Zuñis it is above the ground, but entered at the top by a ladder.

Who acts: Spanish, Mokis kiva, estufa · What happens: call, be, enter · To what, where: estufa, ground, top · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Spanish, Mokis kiva, estufa), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 Mokis	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mokis	det
3	Mokis	Mokis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kiva	compound
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kiva	det
5	kiva	kiva	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 underground	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 estufa	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 estufa	cc
8	estufa	estufa	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kiva	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 call	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 call	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Spanish	det
12	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 call	nsubj
13	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kiva	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 call	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kiva	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 underground	cop
17	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 ground	punct
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 Zuñis	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Zuñis	det
21	Zuñis	Zuñis	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ground	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ground	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 ground	cop
24	above	above	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 underground	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 entered	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 entered	cc
29	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 underground	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 top	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 top	det
32	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entered	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 ladder	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 ladder	det
35	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entered	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 underground	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present	the Spanish	estufa			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	is	present	the Mokis kiva or estufa			underground property	tree rules
3	is	present	estufa		the ground	among the Zuñis	tree rules
4	enter	past	the Mokis kiva or estufa not said here		the top	by a ladder	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 14