Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 3

Before he became a man and his face was cut in the stone, he was a great bird and his nest was in the pipestone rocks.

Who acts: Manitou, great bird · What happens: become, cut, be · To what, where: man, face, stone, great bird, pipestone rocks

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, great 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 became	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bird	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux:pass
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 became	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 stone	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bird	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bird	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bird	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bird	amod
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rocks	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nest	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nest	nmod:poss
22	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bird	conj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rocks	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 rocks	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rocks	det
26	pipestone	pipestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rocks	compound
27	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 rocks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Manitou	a man			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	cut	past · passive		Manitou's face	the stone		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	is a	past	Manitou	a great bird and Manitou's nest		Manitou's nest conj	tree rules
4	is	past	a great bird and Manitou's nest		the pipestone rocks		tree rules

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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 3