Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 9

He told a little nibanabas that if the little people of the forest, the pukwudjinnies, could hit him with cones from the pine trees, he would die.

Who acts: Marie, little people · What happens: tell, hit, die · To what, where: little nibanabas, Marie, pine trees · 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, little people), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nibanabas	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nibanabas	amod
5	nibanabas	nibanaba	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hit	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 hit	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hit	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pukwudjinnies	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pukwudjinnies	det
16	pukwudjinnies	pukwudjinny	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forest	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hit	aux
19	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hit	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 cones	case
22	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hit	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 trees	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
25	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trees	compound
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hit	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 die	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 die	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 die	aux
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hit	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Marie	a little nibanabas			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent nibanaba=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hit a condition, not said to happen	could	the little people of the forest and the pukwudjinnies	Marie	the pine trees	with cones	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with cone=Instrument
3	die	would	Marie				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 9