Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 44

When this bird rushes from the reeds by the river into the water, the Indian who sees it often cries out, “There goes the bird Menabozho kicked.”

Who acts: bird, water · What happens: rush, see, cry out, go, kick · To what, where: reeds, bird · 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 (bird, water), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 rushes	mark
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rushes	nsubj
4	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cries	advcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 reeds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reeds	det
7	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rushes	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rushes	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rushes	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Indian	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Indian	det
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sees	nsubj
18	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 water	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sees	obj
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 cries	advmod
21	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 cries	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 goes	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 goes	punct
25	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 goes	expl
26	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cries	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kicked	nsubj
29	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 kicked	nsubj
30	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 goes	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cries	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 cries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	present	this bird		the reeds	by the river; into the water	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent from reed=Initial_Location by river=Trajectory into water=Destination
2	see	present	the water	bird			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	cry out speech: express	present				often property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	present			there		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	kick in a quote	past	the bird			Menabozho nsubj	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 44