Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 6
Sun-dried brick used by the Indians and others in the southwestern part of the United States in the making of walls and huts.
Who acts: walls · What happens: dry, use, make · To what, where: Sun dried brick, southwestern part
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 (walls), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brick | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sun | punct |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brick | amod |
| 4 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brick | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Indians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Indians | det |
| 8 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 used | obl:agent |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 others | cc |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Indians | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 States | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 States | det |
| 17 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 States | amod |
| 18 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 part | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 making | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 making | det |
| 21 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 walls | case |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 making | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 huts | cc |
| 25 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 walls | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | use | participle | Sun dried brick not said here | the southwestern part of the United States | in the making of walls and huts; the Indians and others obl:agent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | make | walls and huts | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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