Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 7

The red man seemed to believe every stone, every bush, and almost every animal had its manitou or spirit.

Who acts: red man, animal · What happens: seem, believe, have · To what, where: stone, manitou

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 (red man, animal), 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	3 man	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 believe	mark
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believe	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bush	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 bush	det
11	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stone	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 animal	advmod
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 animal	det
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 manitou	nmod:poss
19	manitou	manitou	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 spirit	cc
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 manitou	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seem	past	the red man		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	believe	to-infinitive	the red man not said here	every stone and every bush	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus
3	have	past	every animal	animal's manitou or spirit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manitou=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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 7