Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 49

The stories recently collected are interesting in showing how alive is all Nature to those who live nearest to her.

Who acts: stories · What happens: collect, be, show, live · To what, where: those, alive Nature

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 interesting	nsubj
3	recently	recently	ADV	_	4 collected	advmod
4	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stories	acl:relcl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 interesting	cop
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 showing	mark
8	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 interesting	advcl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 alive	advmod
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Nature	amod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Nature	cop
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 Nature	det
13	Nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 showing	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 showing	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 live	nsubj
17	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 those	acl:relcl
18	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 live	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nearest	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	collect	past	the stories not said here			recently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	the stories			interesting property	tree rules
3	show	gerund	the stories not said here		those		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient
4	is a	present		all alive Nature			tree rules
5	live	present				who nsubj	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 49