Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 11
In one of these battles Menabozho’s arrows tore off many pieces of flesh from him.
Who acts: arrows · What happens: tore off · To what, where: many pieces
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrows), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tore | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 battles | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 battles | det |
| 5 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Menabozho | case |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tore | nsubj |
| 9 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 tore | compound:prt |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pieces | amod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tore | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flesh | case |
| 14 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pieces | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flesh | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore off | past | Menabozho's arrows | many pieces of flesh from Menabozho | in one of this battles | tree rules |
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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