Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 44
The numerous Indian nations of America are and were as different in their character and conditions as are the civilized people living in America to-day.
Who acts: numerous Indian nations, civilized people · What happens: be, live · To what, where: character, America
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 (numerous Indian nations, civilized people), 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 | 4 nations | det |
| 2 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nations | amod |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nations | amod |
| 4 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 different | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nations | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 different | cop |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 different | cc |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 different | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 different | case |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 character | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 character | nmod:poss |
| 14 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 different | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 conditions | cc |
| 16 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 character | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 people | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 20 | civilized | civilized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 different | obl |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 people | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 America | case |
| 24 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 living | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 living | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the numerous Indian nations of America | pockets's character and conditions | different property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | as the civilized people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | the civilized people not said here | America | day | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location |
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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