Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 43

There is a certain little black swimming bird that looks much like a duck, which is called a diver.

Who acts: certain little black swimming bird · What happens: be, look, call · To what, where: duck · 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 (certain little black swimming bird), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	compound
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	acl:relcl
11	much	much	ADV	_	10 looks	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 duck	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 duck	det
14	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 called	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 duck	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 diver	det
20	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a certain little black swimming bird		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	present	a certain little black swimming bird			like a duck	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	call	present · passive		a duck		a diver xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 43