Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 42

It was not far from where he lay by his mother’s wigwam when he dared the great Menabozho to a deed the manitou could not perform.

Who acts: child, tree, manitou · What happens: not be, lie, dare, not perform · To what, where: great Menabozho, deed

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 (child, tree, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 far	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 far	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 lay	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 where	case
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 lay	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 wigwam	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wigwam	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 dared	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dared	nsubj
16	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lay	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Menabozho	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Menabozho	amod
19	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 dared	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 deed	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 deed	det
22	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dared	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 manitou	det
24	manitou	manitou	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 perform	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 perform	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 perform	advmod
27	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 deed	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	child			far property	tree rules
2	lie	past	tree			by tree's mother's wigwam	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wigwam=Location
3	dare	past	tree		the great Menabozho	to a deed	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent menabozho=Recipient
4	not perform	could	the manitou	a deed not said here			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 42