Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 14

This gave Menabozho courage, and he traveled all over the earth teaching men how to use stone and bone.

Who acts: This, firestone · What happens: give, travel, teach, use · To what, where: Menabozho courage, earth, men, stone

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 (This, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 courage	compound
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 traveled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 traveled	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 traveled	nsubj
8	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 earth	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traveled	obl
13	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 traveled	conj
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 teaching	obj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 use	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 use	mark
17	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 teaching	xcomp
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 use	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bone	cc
20	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stone	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	This	Menabozho courage			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
2	travel	past	firestone			the earth	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Trajectory
3	teach speech: other	gerund	firestone not said here		men		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
4	use	to-infinitive	firestone not said here	stone and bone			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 14