Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 18
They live almost wholly upon roots of weeds or the few insects and small animals found in the plains of eastern Utah and the surrounding country.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: live, find · To what, where: roots, small animals, plains
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 wholly | advmod |
| 4 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 roots | case |
| 6 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 weeds | case |
| 8 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roots | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 insects | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 insects | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 insects | amod |
| 12 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roots | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 animals | cc |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animals | amod |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roots | conj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 animals | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 plains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plains | det |
| 19 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 found | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Utah | case |
| 21 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Utah | amod |
| 22 | Utah | Utah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 plains | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 country | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 25 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 country | compound |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Utah | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Indians = indian | roots of weeds or the few insects and small animals | wholly property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon root=Location | |||
| 2 | find | participle | small animals not said here | the plains of eastern Utah and the surrounding country | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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