Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 19
Menabozho slew these animals himself and hid them away.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: slay, hide away · To what, where: animals
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), 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 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 slew | nsubj |
| 2 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 animals | det |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slew | obj |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 slew | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hid | cc |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slew | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hid | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 hid | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | Menabozho | this animals | firestone obl | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | |||
| 2 | hide away | past | Menabozho not said here | animals = animal | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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