Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 13
The two trees pinched Menabozho’s arm very hard.
Who acts: two trees · What happens: pinch · To what, where: arm
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 (two trees), 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 | 3 trees | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 trees | nummod |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pinched | nsubj |
| 4 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Menabozho | case |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pinched | obj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 hard | advmod |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 pinched | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pinched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | past | the two trees | Menabozho's arm | hard property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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