Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 17
“Brother Otter, dive down and bring me up a few grains of sand.
Who acts: Brother Otter · What happens: dive down, bring up · To what, where: Menabozho
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 (Brother Otter), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dive | punct |
| 2 | Brother | brother | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Otter | amod |
| 3 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dive | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Otter | punct |
| 5 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 dive | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bring | cc |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dive | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 bring | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grains | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grains | amod |
| 13 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sand | case |
| 15 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grains | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive down in a quote | infinitive | Brother Otter | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bring up in a quote | infinitive | Brother Otter not said here | Menabozho | a few grains of sand obj | 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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