Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 29
They are now much like the white people, for they live in well-built houses, attend church, and send their children to school.
Who acts: Zuñis, white people · What happens: be, live, build, attend, send · To what, where: white people, built houses, church, children, school
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 (Zuñis, white people), 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 | 8 people | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 people | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 live | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 houses | case |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 built | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 houses | amod |
| 17 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 live | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 attend | punct |
| 19 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | conj |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attend | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 send | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 send | cc |
| 23 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 children | nmod:poss |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 send | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 school | case |
| 27 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 send | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Zuñis | now | like the white people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present | Zuñis | the white people not said here | built houses | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme people=Location | |||
| 3 | build | participle | well property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | attend | present | Zuñis not said here | church | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Goal | ||||
| 5 | send | infinitive | the white people not said here | Zuñis's children | school | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=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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