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title: The term Digger Indians has been given to various tribes conquered a… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The term Digger Indians has been given to various tribes conquered and driven from their fishing and hunting grounds. Who acts: Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, with its dependency tree and
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 17

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The term Digger Indians has been given to various tribes conquered and driven from their fishing and hunting grounds.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** give, conquer, drive, fish · **To what, where:** term, various tribes, fishing

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:16:17
# text = The term Digger Indians has been given to various tribes conquered and driven from their fishing and hunting grounds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Digger	Digger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | the term | various tribes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tribe=Recipient |
| 2 | **conquer** | participle |  | various tribes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  | Indians's fishing and hunting grounds |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from fishing=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fish** |  | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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