Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 42
Those who are much among the Indians now, as the hunters in the northern forests are, tell of how real this kindly manitou is to the red man in his every-day life.
Who acts: hunters, Those, manitou · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: day life · 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 (hunters, Those, manitou), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 are | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 are | advmod |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 Indians | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Indians | det |
| 7 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 are | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 are | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hunters | det |
| 12 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 are | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 forests | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forests | det |
| 15 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 forests | amod |
| 16 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hunters | nmod |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 are | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Those | punct |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 real | case |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 real | advmod |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 manitou | det |
| 24 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 25 manitou | advmod |
| 25 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 man | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 man | cop |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 life | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 life | nmod:poss |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 day | det |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 every | punct |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 life | compound |
| 36 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | the hunters in the northern forests | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Those | Menabozho's day life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | this manitou | to the real red man | tree rules |
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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