Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 2
To gain the help of the strong manitou the boy must fast twelve days.
What happens: gain, help · To what, where: help, strong manitou
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 gain | mark |
| 2 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 manitou | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 manitou | det |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 manitou | amod |
| 8 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manitou | appos |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 days | aux |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 twelve | advmod |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 boy | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | to-infinitive | the help of the strong manitou | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | the strong manitou | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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