Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 10

But he knew he was very tall, and the pukwudjinnies were no larger than a little papoose.

Who acts: Marie, pukwudjinnies · What happens: know, be, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marie, pukwudjinnies), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 knew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tall	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 tall	advmod
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 larger	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 larger	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pukwudjinnies	det
11	pukwudjinnies	pukwudjinny	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 larger	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 larger	cop
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 larger	advmod
14	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 knew	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 papoose	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 papoose	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 papoose	amod
18	papoose	papoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 larger	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know	past	Marie		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Marie	tall property	tree rules
3	not is	past	the pukwudjinnies	than a little papoose; large property	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, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 10