Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 45

If the white fisherman tells a story of some great fish that he has caught, or that nearly came into his net, then the Indians, among themselves, grunt and scoff at his story.

Who acts: white fisherman, that · What happens: tell, catch, come · To what, where: story, Indians, fisherman, net · 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 (white fisherman, that), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 tells	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fisherman	amod
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 fish	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 fish	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 story	nmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 caught	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 caught	nsubj:pass
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 caught	aux
15	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fish	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 came	nsubj
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	ccomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 net	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 net	nmod:poss
23	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Indians	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 Indians	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Indians	det
27	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 tells	iobj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 themselves	punct
29	among	among	ADP	_	30 themselves	case
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 tells	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grunt	punct
32	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 themselves	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 scoff	cc
34	scoff	scoff	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 themselves	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 story	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 story	nmod:poss
37	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the white fisherman	a story of some great fish	the Indians	fisherman's story	among Indians = indian	tree rules
2	catch	present · perfect · passive		fisherman				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	come	past	that			fisherman's net	nearly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into net=Initial_Location

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 45

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Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 45