Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 9

Hiawatha the Iroquois is always dignified; Menabozho the Algonquin is very powerful but full of boyish tricks.

Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: dignify, be · To what, where: Hiawatha

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho), 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	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dignified	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Iroquois	det
3	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hiawatha	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dignified	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 dignified	advmod
6	dignified	dignify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 powerful	punct
8	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 powerful	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Algonquin	det
10	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Menabozho	flat
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 powerful	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 powerful	advmod
13	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dignified	parataxis
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 full	cc
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 powerful	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tricks	case
17	boyish	boyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tricks	amod
18	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 full	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dignified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dignify	present · passive		Hiawatha	always property	tree rules
2	is	present	Menabozho		powerful property	tree rules
3	be		Menabozho not said here		of boyish tricks	tree rules

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, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 9