Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 21
A marble bust of Se-quoyah adorns the council house in Tahlequah, the capital of Indian Territory, where this tribe was sent after gold was found on their reservation in Georgia.
Who acts: marble bust · What happens: adorn, send, find, bust · To what, where: council house, tribe, Tahlequah, reservation, Se quoyah
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: who acts (marble bust), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bust | det |
| 2 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bust | compound |
| 3 | bust | bust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adorns | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 quoyah | case |
| 5 | Se | Se | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoyah | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Se | punct |
| 7 | quoyah | quoyah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bust | nmod |
| 8 | adorns | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adorns | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Tahlequah | case |
| 13 | Tahlequah | Tahlequah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 found | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 capital | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 capital | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Tahlequah | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Territory | case |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Territory | amod |
| 19 | Territory | Territory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 capital | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 sent | advmod |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 tribe | det |
| 23 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sent | aux:pass |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 capital | acl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | obl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 adorns | parataxis |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 reservation | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 reservation | nmod:poss |
| 32 | reservation | reservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Georgia | case |
| 34 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 reservation | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 adorns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | present | a marble bust of Se quoyah | the council house | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | this tribe | after gold | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | Tahlequah | quoyah's reservation in Georgia | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bust | Se quoyah | nom bust «event 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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