Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 4
A manitou had prepared the leather in the moccasins for himself.
What happens: prepare · To what, where: manitou, moccasins
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | aux |
| 4 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leather | det |
| 6 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moccasins | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moccasins | det |
| 9 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prepared | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 moccasins | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | a manitou | the moccasins for shot | the leather obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary leather=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/65/4/