Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 26
Some Indian legends say that Menabozho now lives on an ice mountain in the great sea.
Who acts: Indian legends, Menabozho · What happens: say, live · To what, where: ice mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Indian legends, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 legends | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legends | amod |
| 3 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lives | mark |
| 6 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lives | advmod |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mountain | compound |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sea | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mountain | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | some Indian legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | present | Menabozho | a ice mountain in the great sea | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location |
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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