Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 19
There is an order of nuns among the Pueblos called Ko-Ko.
Who acts: order, Pueblos · What happens: be, call, order · To what, where: nuns, Ko · 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 (order, Pueblos), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 order | det |
| 4 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nuns | case |
| 6 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 order | nmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 Pueblos | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pueblos | det |
| 9 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nuns | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ko | punct |
| 13 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ko | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a order of nuns | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the Pueblos | nuns not said here | Ko and Ko | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ko=Recipient | |||
| 3 | order | nuns | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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