Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 6
“Weenk is a bee as big as a buffalo,” they say.
Who acts: Weenk, children · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bee | punct |
| 2 | Weenk | Weenk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bee | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bee | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bee | det |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 big | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bee | amod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 buffalo | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 buffalo | det |
| 10 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 big | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bee | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bee | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Weenk | a bee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | children = child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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