Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 41

Stories that the Indians are telling of him to-day speak of him as calling the trees his brothers.

Who acts: Stories · What happens: tell, call · To what, where: day speak, trees · 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 (Stories), 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	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 telling	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Indians	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Indians	det
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Stories	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telling	aux
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 telling	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 speak	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 to	punct
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	compound
12	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 speak	nmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 calling	mark
16	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 telling	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 calling	obj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brothers	nmod:poss
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 calling	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	Stories the Indians that		day speak of Menabozho			of Menabozho	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to speak=Recipient
2	call	gerund	Stories the Indians that not said here	the trees				Menabozho's brothers obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme brother=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.

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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 41