Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 43
It was in this way the wise manitou punished the boy.
Who acts: child, wise manitou · What happens: be, punish · To what, where: way, boy
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, wise 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 | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 manitou | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 manitou | amod |
| 8 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 punished | nsubj |
| 9 | punished | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 punished | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | child | this way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | punish | past | the wise manitou | the boy | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
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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