Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 67
An English name for a wigwam, teepee, or other dwelling built by Indians.
What happens: dwell, build · To what, where: English name
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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wigwam | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wigwam | det |
| 6 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 teepee | punct |
| 8 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wigwam | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 other | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 other | cc |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | parataxis |
| 12 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 other | advcl |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dwelling | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Indians | case |
| 15 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 built | obl:agent |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | build | participle | Indians obl:agent | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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