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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 27

If he, by any chance, were driven from his home all things would burn if he should touch his feet to the ground to spring into the air.

Who acts: things, Menabozho · What happens: drive, burn, touch · To what, where: Menabozho, home, feet, air

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 (things, 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

marknsubj:passpunctcasedetappospunctaux:passadvclcasenmod:possobldetnsubjauxmarknsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjcasedetoblcaseoblcasedetoblpunctrootIfSCONJhePRON,PUNCTbyADPanyDETchanceNOUN,PUNCTwereAUXdrivenVERBfromADPhisPRONhomeNOUNallDETthingsNOUNwouldAUXburnVERBifSCONJhePRONshouldAUXtouchVERBhisPRONfeetNOUNtoADPtheDETgroundNOUNtoADPspringNOUNintoADPtheDETairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IfifSCONJ_9 drivenmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 drivennsubj:pass
3,,PUNCT_6 chancepunct
4bybyADP_6 chancecase
5anyanyDETPronType=Ind6 chancedet
6chancechanceNOUNNumber=Sing2 heappos
7,,PUNCT_6 chancepunct
8werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 drivenaux:pass
9drivendriveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 burnadvcl
10fromfromADP_12 homecase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 homenmod:poss
12homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing9 drivenobl
13allallDETPronType=Tot14 thingsdet
14thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur16 burnnsubj
15wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin16 burnaux
16burnburnVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
17ififSCONJ_20 touchmark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 touchnsubj
19shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin20 touchaux
20touchtouchVERBVerbForm=Inf16 burnadvcl
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 feetnmod:poss
22feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur20 touchobj
23totoADP_25 groundcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 grounddet
25groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing20 touchobl
26totoADP_27 springcase
27springspringNOUNNumber=Sing20 touchobl
28intointoADP_30 aircase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 airdet
30airairNOUNNumber=Sing20 touchobl
31..PUNCT_16 burnpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1drive a condition, not said to happenpast · passiveMenabozhoMenabozho's homevn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from home=Trajectory
2burnwouldall thingsvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3touch a condition, not said to happenshouldMenabozhoMenabozho's feetthe airspringto the groundvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Co-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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