Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 28

Indians seem to have great pity for the unfortunate few of their tribe who have lost their senses, becoming either insane or foolish.

Who acts: Indians, unfortunate few tribe · What happens: seem, have, lose, become · To what, where: great pity, senses

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, unfortunate few tribe), 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	Indians	indian	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 have	mark
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seem	xcomp
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pity	amod
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	13 tribe	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tribe	det
9	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tribe	amod
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tribe	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tribe	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tribe	nmod:poss
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lost	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lost	aux
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 tribe	acl:relcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 senses	nmod:poss
18	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lost	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 becoming	punct
20	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lost	advcl
21	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 insane	advmod
22	insane	insane	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 becoming	xcomp
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 foolish	cc
24	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 insane	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Indians			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have	to-infinitive	Indians not said here	great pity	for Indians's unfortunate few tribe	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
3	lose	present · perfect	Indians's unfortunate few tribe	Indians's senses		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality
4	become	gerund	Indians's unfortunate few tribe not said here		insane property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 28

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 28