Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 24
The mounds are themselves the unsolved records of a great people.
Who acts: mounds · What happens: be · To what, where: unsolved records
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: who acts (mounds), 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 mounds | det |
| 2 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 records | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 records | cop |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 records | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 records | det |
| 6 | unsolved | unsolved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 records | amod |
| 7 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 records | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 records | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the mounds | the unsolved records | of a great people | 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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