Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 32
If he wished, he could make himself as short as a man.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: wish, make · To what, where: tribe
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 (tribe), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wished | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 short | advmod |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 short | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | past | tribe | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | make | could | tribe | tribe | short property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product |
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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