Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 12
These teepees and wigwams were easily put up or removed, and were a good shelter.
What happens: put up, remove, be · To what, where: teepees, good shelter
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came. 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 teepees | det |
| 2 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wigwams | cc |
| 4 | wigwams | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teepees | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 removed | cc |
| 10 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 put | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shelter | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shelter | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shelter | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shelter | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shelter | amod |
| 16 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | past · passive | this teepees and wigwams | easily property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | remove | participle | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a good shelter | tree rules |
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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