Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 24

Shingebis may have known that the one he was singing about stood outside his doorway, for he sang this song many times.

Who acts: Shingebis, one · What happens: know, sing, stand · To what, where: Shingebis, one, doorway, song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shingebis, one), 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	Shingebis	Shingebis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 known	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 known	aux
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 stood	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 singing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 singing	aux
10	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 one	acl:relcl
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 stood	advmod
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	ccomp
13	outside	outside	ADP	_	15 doorway	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 doorway	nmod:poss
15	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sang	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 sang	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sang	nsubj
19	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	conj
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 song	det
21	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sang	obj
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sang	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	may · perfect · passive		Shingebis				tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	Shingebis	the one not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	stand	past	the one		Shingebis's doorway		about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside doorway=Location
4	sing speech: express	past	Shingebis	this song		time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 24