Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 13
At last Menabozho conquered, for he had more love for man in his heart than had his brother, and the great firestone giant fell, and his pieces are scattered everywhere.
Who acts: Menabozho, great firestone · What happens: conquer, have, fall, scatter · To what, where: last Menabozho, more love, brother, 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 (Menabozho, great firestone), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Menabozho | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Menabozho | amod |
| 3 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conquered | obl |
| 4 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 had | case |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 conquered | conj |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 love | amod |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 firestone | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 firestone | amod |
| 24 | firestone | firestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 firestone | amod |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 conquered | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 scattered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 scattered | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 scattered | aux:pass |
| 32 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 conquered | conj |
| 33 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 32 scattered | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | last Menabozho | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Menabozho | more love | for man in Man's heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | past | Menabozho not said here | Man's brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the great firestone | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | scatter | present · passive | Man's pieces | everywhere property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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