Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 19
The otter knew he must do as Menabozho told him, so he put his head down into the deep water.
Who acts: otter, Menabozho · What happens: know, do, tell, put down · To what, where: otter, head, deep water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (otter, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 otter | det |
| 2 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 told | mark |
| 8 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 water | amod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the otter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | must | otter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Menabozho | otter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | put down | past | otter | otter's head | the deep water | down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
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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