Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 15

Other Indian tribes and nations have kept long records by means of similar sticks, but the account given by this people is the longest Indian history.

Who acts: account · What happens: keep, mean, give, be · To what, where: Other Indian tribes, account, longest Indian history

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (account), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tribes	amod
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tribes	amod
3	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nations	cc
5	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tribes	conj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 records	amod
9	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 means	case
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sticks	case
13	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sticks	amod
14	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 means	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 history	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 history	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 account	det
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 history	nsubj
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 account	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 given	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 history	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 history	det
25	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 history	amod
26	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 history	amod
27	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present · perfect · passive		Other Indian tribes and nations	long records obj	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme record=Attribute
2	mean	present			of similar sticks	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	give	participle		the account not said here	by this people	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	the account	the longest Indian history		tree rules

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, Indian Records, sentence 15

The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 15