Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 14

He had to stand in one place, for the manitou bird would not set him free until he knew many things.

Who acts: man, manitou bird · What happens: have, stand, not set, know · To what, where: one place, man, many things

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, manitou bird), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stand	mark
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 place	nummod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 set	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	manitou	manitou	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bird	compound
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 set	advmod
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stand	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 set	xcomp
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 knew	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	advcl
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 things	amod
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 knew	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man				tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive	man not said here		one place		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
3	not set	would	the manitou bird	man		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
4	know	past	man	many things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 14