Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 29
When this great manitou walked on the earth his steps measured as long as the steps one tribe would take in one day.
Who acts: great manitou, one tribe, manitou · What happens: walk, measure, take, step · To what, where: earth, steps
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 (great manitou, one tribe, manitou), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 manitou | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 manitou | amod |
| 4 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 steps | nmod:poss |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 earth | conj |
| 11 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 steps | acl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 measured | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 steps | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 steps | det |
| 16 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 measured | obl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 tribe | nummod |
| 18 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 steps | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 day | nummod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | this great manitou | the earth and manitou's steps | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | measure | participle | manitou's steps not said here | as the steps; long property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | would | one tribe | the steps not said here | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | |||
| 4 | step | manitou | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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