Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 168
It is never carried from place to place as the teepee and wigwam are by other tribes.
Who acts: other tribes · What happens: not carry, be · To what, where: brushwood, place
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: who acts (other tribes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 carried | advmod |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 teepee | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teepee | det |
| 11 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wigwam | cc |
| 13 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teepee | conj |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 tribes | case |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tribes | amod |
| 17 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry | present · passive | other tribes | brushwood | place to place | as the teepee and wigwam | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from place=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | be | present | other tribes not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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