Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 2
When the story is of some great deed of Nanabush, or of Missaba, you must remember that these names are only another way of speaking of Menabozho.
Who acts: story, you, names, way · What happens: be, remember, speak · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story, you, names, way), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 deed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deed | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 deed | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 deed | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 deed | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deed | amod |
| 8 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Nanabush | case |
| 10 | Nanabush | Nanabush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 deed | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remember | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 remember | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Missaba | case |
| 14 | Missaba | Missaba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 remember | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Missaba | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 remember | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remember | aux |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 deed | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 way | mark |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 names | det |
| 21 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 way | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 way | cop |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 way | advmod |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remember | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 speaking | mark |
| 27 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 way | acl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Menabozho | case |
| 29 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 speaking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 deed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the story | of some great deed; of Nanabush | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | must | you | of Missaba | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this names | another way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | another way not said here | of Menabozho | vn talk-37.5 «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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