Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, sentence 3
Menabozho caught 230 IV.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: catch · To what, where: 230 IV
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho), 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 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 230 | 230 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 IV | compound |
| 4 | IV | IV | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 2 caught | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Menabozho | 230 IV | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iv=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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