Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 14

As the Pueblos were and are now less warlike than the roving tribes which live in tent-like houses, they have had time to invent many useful things.

Who acts: roving tribes, houses · What happens: be, rove, live, have, invent · To what, where: like houses, many useful things

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roving tribes, houses), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Pueblos	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pueblos	det
3	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 warlike	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 warlike	cop
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 warlike	cc
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 warlike	cop
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 less	advmod
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 warlike	advmod
9	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 tribes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tribes	det
12	roving	rove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 tribes	amod
13	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 warlike	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 live	nsubj
15	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tribes	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 houses	case
17	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 like	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 tent	punct
19	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 houses	amod
20	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 live	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 warlike	parataxis
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 invent	mark
27	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 time	acl
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
29	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 invent	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 warlike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				now	as the Pueblos; than the roving tribes; less, warlike property	tree rules
2	rove	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	present	the roving tribes		like houses			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4	have	present · perfect	houses = house			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	invent	to-infinitive	houses = house not said here	many useful things				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Result

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, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 14