Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 6
A manitou was sent to her to make her stop asking.
Who acts: woman · What happens: send, make, stop, ask · To what, where: manitou, woman
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 manitou | det |
| 2 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stop | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | a manitou | woman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stop | infinitive | woman not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | woman not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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