Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 1
The native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States were much more civilized when discovered than the wandering tribes in other parts of the country.
Who acts: native Indians · What happens: be, discover, wonder
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native 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 | 3 Indians | det |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Indians | amod |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 civilized | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 States | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 States | det |
| 10 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 States | amod |
| 11 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 part | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 civilized | cop |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 civilized | advmod |
| 15 | civilized | civilized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 discovered | advmod |
| 17 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 civilized | acl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 tribes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tribes | det |
| 20 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 tribes | amod |
| 21 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 discovered | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 parts | case |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 parts | amod |
| 24 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tribes | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 parts | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 civilized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States | civilized property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | participle | than the wandering tribes in other parts of the country | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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