Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 111
They are a strong tribe of the Algonquins, who, with others, have been driven by the wars with the Iroquois to the regions about Lake Superior.
Who acts: Indians, wars · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: strong tribe, regions
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, wars), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tribe | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tribe | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tribe | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tribe | amod |
| 5 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Algonquins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Algonquins | det |
| 8 | Algonquins | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 tribe | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 driven | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 driven | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 others | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 others | punct |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 driven | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 driven | aux:pass |
| 17 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tribe | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 wars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wars | det |
| 20 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 driven | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Iroquois | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Iroquois | det |
| 23 | Iroquois | iroquois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 driven | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 regions | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 regions | det |
| 26 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 driven | obl |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 Lake | case |
| 28 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 regions | nmod |
| 29 | Superior | Superior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Lake | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tribe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Indians = indian | a strong tribe | of the Algonquins | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drive | present · perfect · passive | the wars | a strong tribe | the regions about Lake | with the Iroquois; others nsubj:pass | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to region=Trajectory |
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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