Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 20

He came up, but he had no life any more, and Menabozho could not find any sand in his paws.

Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: come up, have, not find · To what, where: life, sand, paws

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 life	det
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	any	any	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 had	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 find	cc
14	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 find	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 find	advmod
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 sand	det
19	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 paws	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 paws	nmod:poss
22	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 find	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come up	past	Menabozho			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Menabozho	no life		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
3	not find	could	Menabozho	any sand	Menabozho's paws	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Topic

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 20