Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 2

Now they are prevented by law from fishing or hunting outside the boundaries of their various reservations, to which they were sent by the government for different reasons.

Who acts: law, government · What happens: prevent, hunt, send · To what, where: tribes, fishing, boundaries, various reservations

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 (law, government), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 prevented	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prevented	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prevented	aux:pass
4	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prevented	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 fishing	case
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prevented	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 hunting	cc
10	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fishing	conj
11	outside	outside	ADP	_	13 boundaries	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boundaries	det
13	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hunting	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 reservations	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 reservations	nmod:poss
16	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reservations	amod
17	reservations	reservation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 boundaries	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sent	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sent	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sent	aux:pass
23	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 reservations	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 government	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 government	det
26	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl:agent
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 reasons	case
28	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 reasons	amod
29	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sent	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prevented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	present · passive	law	tribes = tribe	fishing	now		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer subject=Beneficiary from fishing=Eventuality
2	hunt	gerund	law not said here		the boundaries of tribes's various reservations			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent outside boundary=Location
3	send	past · passive	the government	tribes = tribe	tribes's various reservations		for different reasons	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=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, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 2