Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 171
It is easily rolled and carried from place to place.
What happens: roll, carry · 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: 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 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | aux:pass |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 rolled | advmod |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carried | cc |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rolled | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present · passive | brushwood | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | participle | place to place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from place=Initial_Location |
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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