Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 26
People have thought of many reasons why the red men should have called him the Great White Hare.
Who acts: People · What happens: think, call · To what, where: red men · 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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | aux |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 reasons | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reasons | amod |
| 6 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | obl:agent |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 called | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 called | aux |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reasons | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Hare | det |
| 16 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 White | flat |
| 17 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hare | compound |
| 18 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · perfect | People | many reasons obl:agent | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | should · perfect · passive | the red men | Menabozho obj; the White Hare xcomp | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme he=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/69/26/