Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 33

If they came from across the great ocean at the west, or drifted across the one at the east, they may have brought this story of Menabozho, the god of light, with them.

Who acts: men · What happens: come, drift, bring · To what, where: great ocean, men

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 (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 brought	advcl
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 ocean	case
5	across	across	ADP	_	8 ocean	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ocean	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ocean	amod
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 west	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 west	det
11	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ocean	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drifted	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 drifted	cc
14	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 one	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drifted	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 east	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 east	det
20	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	nsubj:pass
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 brought	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 brought	aux
25	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Menabozho	case
29	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 story	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 god	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 god	det
32	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Menabozho	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 light	case
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 god	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 them	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	past	men = man		the great ocean at the west		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ocean=Initial_Location
2	drift	participle	men = man not said here			across the one at the east	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across one=Trajectory
3	bring	may · perfect · passive		men = man		with stories = story; this story of Menabozho obj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination story=Theme

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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 33