Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 46
They can tell of a larger fish than any white man ever saw or brought to shore.
Who acts: stories, white man · What happens: tell, see, bring · To what, where: shore · 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, white man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 6 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 fish | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 man | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 saw | advmod |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 saw | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | stories = story | of a larger fish | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past | any white man | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | bring | participle | any white man not said here | shore | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to shore=Destination |
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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