Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 23
The ornaments made of silver by the Navajo, as well as the long strings of turquoise beads, are sometimes remarkable for their beauty.
Who acts: ornaments · What happens: make, be · To what, where: ornaments
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 (ornaments), 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 | 2 ornaments | det |
| 2 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 remarkable | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ornaments | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 silver | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Navajo | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Navajo | det |
| 8 | Navajo | Navajo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strings | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 strings | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 strings | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strings | amod |
| 15 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Navajo | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beads | case |
| 17 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beads | compound |
| 18 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 strings | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ornaments | punct |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 remarkable | cop |
| 21 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 remarkable | advmod |
| 22 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 beauty | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remarkable | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the ornaments not said here | of silver; by the Navajo the long strings of turquoise beads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the ornaments | for ornaments's beauty; remarkable, sometimes property | 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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