Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 8
The manitou said she must hide herself from her people or he could not answer her question.
Who acts: manitou, headband · What happens: say, hide, not answer, question · To what, where: manitou, question · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (manitou, headband), 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 | 2 manitou | det |
| 2 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hide | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | aux |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 hide | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hide | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 answer | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answer | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 answer | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 answer | advmod |
| 15 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 question | nmod:poss |
| 17 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answer | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the manitou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hide | must | manitou | manitou | from manitou's people | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from people=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | could | headband | manitou's question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | question | manitou | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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