Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 33
He called to his brothers, who are the trees, animals, and everything on the land, to come and live on this land.
Who acts: Menabozho, brothers, everything · What happens: call, be, come, live · To what, where: brothers, trees, land · 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 (Menabozho, brothers, everything), 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 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trees | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 trees | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trees | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brothers | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 animals | punct |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trees | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 come | cc |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 come | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 everything | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 live | cc |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 land | det |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Menabozho | Menabozho's brothers | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Menabozho's brothers | the trees and animals | animals conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | everything on the land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | infinitive | everything on the land not said here | this land | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |
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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