Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 32

That is not strange for them to say, for they have no remembrance of another land.

Who acts: That, men · What happens: not be, say, have, remember · To what, where: remembrance, land · 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 (That, men), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 strange	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strange	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 strange	advmod
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 say	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strange	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 remembrance	det
14	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remembrance	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	That		strange property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	men = man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	men = man	no remembrance of another land		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remembrance=Patient
4	remember			another land		nom remembrance «cognition 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 32