Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 37

Many have thought that it was the coming of Menabozho the red men expected when the white men came.

Who acts: belief, red men, white men · What happens: think, come, expect · To what, where: Many · 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 (belief, red men, white 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	nsubj:pass
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 Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 coming	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 coming	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coming	det
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thought	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Menabozho	case
10	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 coming	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	amod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 expected	nsubj
14	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	ccomp
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 men	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 expected	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect · passive		Many		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	come	past · progressive	belief		of Menabozho	tree rules
3	expect	past	the red men			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the white men			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 37