Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 5

Their love for their nation, tribe, and family is very great, and that is one reason why a few of the Indian students become once more Blanket Indians.

Who acts: family, that, few, tribes · What happens: be, become, love · To what, where: one reason, love

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 (family, that, few, 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 love	nmod:poss
2	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 nation	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nation	nmod:poss
5	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tribe	punct
7	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 great	cc
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 great	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 great	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 great	advmod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 love	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reason	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reason	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 reason	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reason	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 reason	nummod
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	conj
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 become	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 few	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 become	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 students	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 students	det
25	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 students	amod
26	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 few	nmod
27	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reason	advcl
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 become	xcomp
30	Blanket	blanket	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Indians	amod
31	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 more	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	family		great property	tree rules
2	is a	present	that	one reason		tree rules
3	become	present	a few of the Indian students		more property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	love		tribes = tribe		for tribes's nation	nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 5