Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 166
A brushwood tent-like house used by the Apaches and other roving tribes.
What happens: use, rove · To what, where: tent like house
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 2 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nsubj |
| 3 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 house | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Apaches | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Apaches | det |
| 10 | Apaches | apache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tribes | cc |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tribes | amod |
| 13 | roving | rove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 tribes | amod |
| 14 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Apaches | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a tent like house brushwood not said here | by the Apaches and other roving tribes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rove | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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