Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 15

Menabozho caught him as he floated by the pine tree, but he found no sand in his bill nor on his feet.

Who acts: Menabozho, loon · What happens: catch, float, find, bill · To what, where: loon, sand, bill

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. Story of the Deluge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho, loon), 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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 floated	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 floated	nsubj
6	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 sand	det
16	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bill	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bill	nmod:poss
19	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 feet	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bill	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Menabozho	loon			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	float	past	loon			by the pine tree	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tree=Trajectory
3	find	past	loon	no sand	loon's bill nor loon's feet		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Topic
4	bill		loon				nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 15