Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 1

The present condition of the Indians is very different from that when the tribes roved for thousands of miles either in pursuit of enemies or for food.

Who acts: present condition, tribes · What happens: be, rove, condition, pursue · To what, where: that, pursuit, Indians, enemies

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present condition, tribes), 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 condition	det
2	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 condition	amod
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 different	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Indians	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indians	det
6	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 condition	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 different	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 different	advmod
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 different	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 roved	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tribes	det
14	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 roved	nsubj
15	roved	rove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 different	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 thousands	case
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 roved	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 miles	case
19	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thousands	nmod
20	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 roved	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 pursuit	case
22	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 roved	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 enemies	case
24	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pursuit	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 food	cc
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 food	case
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enemies	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the present condition of the Indians		that	different property	tree rules
2	rove	participle	the tribes		pursuit of enemies or food	for thousands of miles; either property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Trajectory
3	condition			the Indians			nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient
4	pursue			enemies or food			nom pursuit «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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 1