Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 17
The term Digger Indians has been given to various tribes conquered and driven from their fishing and hunting grounds.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: give, conquer, drive, fish · To what, where: term, various tribes, fishing
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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 term | det |
| 2 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Digger | Digger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Indians | compound |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 term | appos |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tribes | case |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tribes | amod |
| 10 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 given | obl |
| 11 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tribes | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 driven | cc |
| 13 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 conquered | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 fishing | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fishing | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grounds | cc |
| 18 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grounds | compound |
| 19 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 fishing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | the term | various tribes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tribe=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | conquer | participle | various tribes not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drive | participle | Indians's fishing and hunting grounds | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from fishing=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | fish | Indians = indian | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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