Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 15
The figures are pictured as clasping each other’s hands.
What happens: picture, clasp · To what, where: figures, hands
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Wampum Money. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 figures | det |
| 2 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pictured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pictured | aux:pass |
| 4 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 clasping | mark |
| 6 | clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pictured | advcl |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 other | case |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clasping | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pictured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | present · passive | the figures | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | clasp | gerund | each other's hands | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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