Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 44
It is not well for any one to be wiser than a manitou, for even the flint stones show that these spirits are very powerful.
Who acts: child, flint stones, spirits · What happens: not be, be, show · Speech: someone speaks here
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, flint stones, spirits), 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 | 7 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 one | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 one | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wiser | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wiser | cop |
| 10 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 one | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 manitou | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 manitou | det |
| 13 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wiser | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 show | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 stones | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stones | det |
| 18 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stones | compound |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 show | nsubj |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 powerful | mark |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 spirits | det |
| 23 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 powerful | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 powerful | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 powerful | advmod |
| 26 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 show | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | child | for any one; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | child not said here | than a manitou; wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present | the flint stones | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | this spirits | powerful property | tree rules |
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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