Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 55
Michabo is another name for Menabozho, the Chippewa Indian’s manitou friend; he has given them this second summer of the year, they believe.
Who acts: Michabo, Chippewa, names · What happens: be, friend, give, believe · To what, where: name, Michabo
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michabo, Chippewa, names), 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 | Michabo | Michabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Menabozho | case |
| 6 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friend | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 9 | Chippewa | Chippewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 friend | nsubj |
| 10 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Indian | case |
| 12 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 friend | compound |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Menabozho | appos |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 name | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | obj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 summer | det |
| 20 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 summer | amod |
| 21 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 summer | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 believe | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 believe | nsubj |
| 27 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Michabo | another name | for Menabozho | tree rules | |||
| 2 | friend | Chippewa | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | present · perfect · passive | Michabo | summer | names = name obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme | |||
| 4 | believe | present | names = name | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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