Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 5
The manitou had whispered many secrets to the leather; but he gave it all to the hunter’s wife because of his love for her husband.
Who acts: manitou · What happens: whisper, give, love · To what, where: manitou, leather, wife
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: who acts (manitou), 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 | 4 whispered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whispered | aux |
| 4 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 secrets | amod |
| 6 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whispered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 leather | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leather | det |
| 9 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whispered | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 it | det |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hunter | det |
| 18 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 hunter | case |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 21 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 love | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 because | fixed |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 love | nmod:poss |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 husband | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the manitou | to the leather; many secrets obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | manitou | leather | the hunter's wife | because manitou's love; for wife's husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Recipient for husband=Asset | ||
| 3 | love | manitou | nom love «feeling 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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