Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 20
The manitou bird pulled away the stone from the feet of the man.
Who acts: manitou bird · What happens: pull away · To what, where: stone, feet, manitou bird
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bird | acl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feet | det |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feet | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull away | participle | the manitou bird not said here | the stone | the feet of the man | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from foot=Source |
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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