Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 21
Those which have drifted or have been driven by whites and red men into the peninsula of southern California are much like the Diggers.
Who acts: Those · What happens: drift, drive, be · To what, where: peninsula
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 (Those), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 Diggers | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 drifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drifted | aux |
| 4 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 driven | cc |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 driven | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 driven | aux:pass |
| 8 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drifted | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 whites | case |
| 10 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 driven | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 men | cc |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 whites | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 peninsula | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 peninsula | det |
| 16 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 driven | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 California | case |
| 18 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 California | amod |
| 19 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 peninsula | nmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Diggers | cop |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 Diggers | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 Diggers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Diggers | det |
| 24 | Diggers | Digger | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 Diggers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | present · perfect · passive | which nsubj:pass | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drive | present · perfect · passive | the peninsula of southern California | by whites and red men | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: into peninsula=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Those | like the Diggers | 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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