Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 35

The boy was playing outside his mother’s lodge and dared the manitou to do as he did.

Who acts: boy · What happens: play, dare, do · To what, where: manitou

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 (boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	9 lodge	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lodge	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dared	cc
11	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 manitou	det
13	manitou	manitou	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dared	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 manitou	acl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 did	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 do	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	the boy		outside boy's mother's lodge	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dare	past	the boy not said here	the manitou		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manitou=Recipient
3	do	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	the manitou not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	boy			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 35