Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 2
Silent letters indicated by italics, as a in head.
What happens: indicate · To what, where: Silent letters
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 | Silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 letters | amod |
| 2 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 letters | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 italics | case |
| 5 | italics | italic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 indicated | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 head | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 letters | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 letters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | participle | Silent letters and a head not said here | by italics | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
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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