Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 11
He climbed into the little tree and tried to pull the tall tree away.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: climb, try, pull · To what, where: little tree, tall tree
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught. 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 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pull | mark |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pull | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 pull | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Menabozho | the little tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Menabozho not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pull not said to happen | to-infinitive | Menabozho not said here | the tall tree | away property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
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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