Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 41

Menabozho changed the child into a white-cedar tree, and the tree stood for hundreds of winters in the place where the child had stood when he wished for long life.

Who acts: Menabozho, tree, child · What happens: change, stand, wish · To what, where: child, cedar tree, place

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 (Menabozho, tree, child), 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	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	10 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cedar	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
9	cedar	cedar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 hundreds	case
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stood	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 winters	case
19	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hundreds	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 place	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 place	det
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 stood	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 child	det
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stood	aux
27	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 place	acl:relcl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 wished	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wished	nsubj
30	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stood	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 life	case
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 life	amod
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wished	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past	Menabozho	the child		into a cedar tree result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent child=Patient into tree=Result
2	stand	past	the tree		the place	for hundreds of winters	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
3	stand	past · perfect	the child				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wish	past	Menabozho			for long life	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 41