Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 13
The Village Indians, or Pueblos of Arizona, still build themselves houses of adobe or unburnt brick.
Who acts: Village Indians · What happens: build · To what, where: Indians
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: who acts (Village Indians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indians | det |
| 2 | Village | Village | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | compound |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 build | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pueblos | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 Pueblos | cc |
| 6 | Pueblos | Pueblos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Arizona | case |
| 8 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pueblos | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 build | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 build | advmod |
| 11 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 build | obj |
| 13 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 build | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 adobe | case |
| 15 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 houses | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 brick | cc |
| 17 | unburnt | unburnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brick | amod |
| 18 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 adobe | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | infinitive | the Village Indians Pueblos of Arizona | Indians = indian | still | houses of adobe or unburnt brick obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary house=Product |
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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