Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock, sentence 36
They are careful not to offend them; there are many little manitous; there are many manitous that try to do harm.
Who acts: Chippewas, many manitous · What happens: be, not offend, try, do · To what, where: Chippewas, many, harm
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chippewas, many manitous), 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 | 3 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 offend | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 offend | mark |
| 6 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 offend | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 offend | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 are | obj |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 manitous | amod |
| 13 | manitous | manitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 many | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 are | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 are | expl |
| 16 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | parataxis |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 manitous | amod |
| 18 | manitous | manitou | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 try | nsubj |
| 20 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 manitous | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 try | xcomp |
| 23 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chippewas = chippewa | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not offend | to-infinitive | Chippewas = chippewa not said here | Chippewas = chippewa | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | present | Chippewas = chippewa not said here | many | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=Theme | |||
| 4 | does | present | many manitous | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | try | present | many manitous | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | many manitous not said here | harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
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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