Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 14
He brings many little manitous to help him, and they go everywhere.
Who acts: Weenk, children · What happens: bring, help, go · To what, where: Weenk
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weenk, children), 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 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 manitous | nsubj |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 manitous | amod |
| 5 | manitous | manitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brings | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 manitous | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 brings | conj |
| 13 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Weenk | manitous property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Weenk not said here | Weenk | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | go | present | children = child | everywhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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