Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 13
Numerous earth mounds in the form of an immense serpent are found in the valley of the Mississippi.
What happens: find, form · To what, where: Numerous earth mounds, valley, immense serpent
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records. 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 | Numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mounds | amod |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounds | compound |
| 3 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 form | det |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounds | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 serpent | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 9 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 serpent | amod |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 valley | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 valley | det |
| 15 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mississippi | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mississippi | det |
| 18 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 valley | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Numerous earth mounds in the form of a immense serpent | the valley of the Mississippi | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | form | a immense serpent | nom form «communication 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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