Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 56
Village life is very tame compared with the wandering life when the tribes moved to some new place almost every moon.
Who acts: Village life, tribes · What happens: be, compare, wonder, move · To what, where: moon, new place
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 (Village life, tribes), 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 | Village | village | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tame | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tame | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tame | advmod |
| 5 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tame | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 life | det |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compared | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 moved | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tribes | det |
| 13 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 compared | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 place | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 moon | advmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 moon | det |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Village life | tame property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare | participle | Village life not said here | with the wandering life | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with life=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | move | past | the tribes | every moon | some new place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory |
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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