Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 4
The Ojibway mother puts her papoose to sleep in a tiny hammock made of bark, fastened with sinew thongs and lined with soft, dry moss.
Who acts: Ojibway mother · What happens: put, sleep, make, fasten, line · To what, where: papoose, tiny hammock
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 (Ojibway mother), 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 mother | det |
| 2 | Ojibway | Ojibway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | compound |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puts | nsubj |
| 4 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 papoose | nmod:poss |
| 6 | papoose | papoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puts | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 puts | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hammock | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hammock | det |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hammock | amod |
| 12 | hammock | hammock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | obl |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hammock | acl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bark | case |
| 15 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fastened | punct |
| 17 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 made | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 thongs | case |
| 19 | sinew | sinew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thongs | compound |
| 20 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fastened | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lined | cc |
| 22 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 made | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 moss | case |
| 24 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moss | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 soft | punct |
| 26 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moss | amod |
| 27 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lined | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 puts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | the Ojibway mother | mother's papoose | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent papoose=Goal | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Ojibway mother not said here | a tiny hammock | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hammock=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a tiny hammock not said here | of bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | fasten | participle | with sinew thongs | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with thong=Co-Patient | |||||
| 5 | line | participle | with soft dry moss | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=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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