Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 66
This was why the hunter was saved when he did the wrong that was not in his heart to do.
Who acts: This, manitou, wrong · What happens: be, save, do, not be · To what, where: hunter, heart
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 (This, manitou, wrong), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunter | det |
| 5 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saved | aux:pass |
| 7 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 did | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saved | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wrong | det |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heart | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 heart | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heart | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 heart | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heart | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | past · passive | the hunter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | manitou | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | the wrong | manitou's heart | that nsubj; manitou nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | manitou not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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