Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 7
Menabozho did not love his fourth brother, the stone man, and had many battles with him.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: not love, have · To what, where: fourth brother, many battles
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), 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 | 4 love | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 love | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 love | advmod |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brother | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 love | parataxis |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 battles | amod |
| 16 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 battles | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not love | past · do-support | Menabozho | Menabozho's fourth brother and the stone man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | many battles | with Menabozho | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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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