Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 19
The stronger tribes will not let them fish in lake or stream, and their whole life is miserable.
Who acts: stronger tribes, Indians, whole life · What happens: not let, fish, be · To what, where: Indians, lake
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 (stronger tribes, Indians, whole life), 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 | 3 tribes | det |
| 2 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 tribes | amod |
| 3 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 let | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fish | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 stream | cc |
| 12 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lake | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 miserable | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 miserable | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 life | amod |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 miserable | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 miserable | cop |
| 19 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 let | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | future | the stronger tribes | Indians = indian | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fish | infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | lake or stream | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in lake=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Indians's whole life | miserable property | tree rules |
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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