Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 22
Menabozho placed four spirits at the four sides of the heavens.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: place · To what, where: four spirits, four sides
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 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 spirits | nummod |
| 4 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 placed | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sides | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sides | nummod |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 placed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heavens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heavens | det |
| 11 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sides | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Menabozho | four spirits | the four sides of the heavens | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme at side=Destination |
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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