Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 11

The white man when he tells a story which is not true says, “Once on a time.”

Who acts: man, story, white man · What happens: tell, not be, say · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, story, white man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 tells	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 man	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 true	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 true	advmod
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	acl:relcl
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Once	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Once	punct
16	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 says	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Once	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	man	a story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	not is	present	a story		true property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the white man		once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/26/11/

🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 11