Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 54
But he lives a life far apart from the busy city or town life of the white man, and it is hard for each to understand the life of the other.
Who acts: judgment · What happens: live, be, understand · To what, where: life, busy city
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judgment), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 lives | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 life | det |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obj |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 apart | advmod |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 3 lives | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 life | cc |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | compound |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 city | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hard | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hard | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hard | expl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hard | cop |
| 23 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lives | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 hard | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 understand | mark |
| 27 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hard | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 life | det |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 understand | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 other | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 other | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 life | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | judgment | a life | the busy city or town life of the white man | apart property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | for each; hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | the life of the other | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
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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