Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 2
This and other Bibles and books in the Indian languages may be seen in the larger city libraries.
What happens: see · To what, where: This, larger city libraries
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seen | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bibles | amod |
| 4 | Bibles | bible | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 books | cc |
| 6 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Bibles | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 languages | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 languages | det |
| 9 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 languages | amod |
| 10 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 books | nmod |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 libraries | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 libraries | det |
| 16 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 libraries | amod |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 libraries | compound |
| 18 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may · passive | This | the larger city libraries | other Bibles and books in the Indian languages nsubj:pass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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