Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 19

The nation became civilized in a short time, and the first printing press sent to an Indian tribe was that sent about 1820 by the United States government to the Cherokees.

Who acts: nation, first printing press, that · What happens: become, send, be · To what, where: first printing press, Indian tribe, 1820, Cherokees

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation, first printing press, that), 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	2 nation	det
2	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	civilized	civilized	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 civilized	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 was	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 press	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 press	amod
13	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 press	compound
14	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
15	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 press	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 tribe	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tribe	det
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tribe	amod
19	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sent	nsubj
22	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	parataxis
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 1820	advmod
24	1820	1820	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 sent	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	29 government	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 government	det
27	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 States	amod
28	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 government	compound
29	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sent	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 Cherokees	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Cherokees	det
32	Cherokees	cherokee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sent	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the nation			civilized property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	send	participle		the first printing press not said here	a Indian tribe		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tribe=Destination
3	be	past	the first printing press				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	send	past	that	1820	the Cherokees	by the States government	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent 1820=Theme to cherokee=Destination

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 19