Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 4
It is at the end of a mesa or plateau which rises abruptly seven hundred feet above the desert.
Who acts: name, plateau · What happens: be, rise · To what, where: end, hundred feet, desert
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 (name, plateau), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 end | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mesa | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mesa | det |
| 8 | mesa | mesa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 plateau | cc |
| 10 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mesa | conj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 rises | nsubj |
| 12 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 plateau | acl:relcl |
| 13 | abruptly | abruptly | ADV | _ | 15 hundred | advmod |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 feet | nummod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rises | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 desert | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 desert | det |
| 19 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rises | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | name | at the end | of a mesa or plateau | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise | present | plateau | hundred feet | the desert | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above desert=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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