Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 7
They are a tall, dignified, intelligent race, and resent the visits of white people unless it is shown that the visitor is a friend, for they have been driven to these Everglades by reason of conquering whites.
Who acts: Indians, tall dignified intelligent race, visitor, Everglades, reason · What happens: be, resent, show, drive, conquer, visit · To what, where: tall dignified intelligent race, visits, Many, friend, Indians, whites
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, tall dignified intelligent race, visitor, Everglades), 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 | 9 race | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 race | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
| 6 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dignified | punct |
| 8 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 resent | cc |
| 12 | resent | resent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 race | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 visits | det |
| 14 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resent | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 visits | nmod |
| 18 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 21 shown | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 shown | aux:pass |
| 21 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 resent | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 friend | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 visitor | det |
| 24 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 friend | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 friend | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 friend | det |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shown | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 driven | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 driven | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 driven | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 driven | aux:pass |
| 33 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 shown | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Everglades | case |
| 35 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 Everglades | det |
| 36 | Everglades | Everglade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 driven | obl:agent |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 reason | case |
| 38 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 driven | obl |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 40 conquering | mark |
| 40 | conquering | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 reason | acl |
| 41 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 conquering | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 race | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Indians = indian | a tall dignified intelligent race | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resent | infinitive | a tall dignified intelligent race not said here | the visits of white people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | show a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | Many | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the visitor | a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drive | present · perfect · passive | this Everglades | Indians = indian | by reason | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme by reason=Destination | |||
| 6 | conquer | gerund | reason not said here | whites | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Patient | ||||
| 7 | visit | white people | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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