Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 17
The sun is often troubled by clouds and storms; and Menabozho has many troubles, but usually comes out very bravely from every hindrance.
Who acts: clouds, Menabozho · What happens: trouble, have, come out · To what, where: sun, many troubles, hindrance
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 troubled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 troubled | aux:pass |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 troubled | advmod |
| 5 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 clouds | case |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 troubled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 storms | cc |
| 9 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clouds | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 12 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 troubled | parataxis |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 troubles | amod |
| 15 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 comes | cc |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 19 comes | advmod |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 comes | compound:prt |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 bravely | advmod |
| 22 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 19 comes | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 hindrance | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 hindrance | det |
| 25 | hindrance | hindrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | present · passive | clouds and storms | the sun | often property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | have | present | Menabozho | many troubles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come out | present | Menabozho not said here | every hindrance | bravely, usually property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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