Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 26
These wolves ate up the sweet moose fat, and Menabozho fought with the trees to get out of the trap they made for him.
Who acts: wolves, Menabozho, noses · What happens: eat up, fight, get out, make · To what, where: sweet moose fat, trap
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 (wolves, Menabozho, noses), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 wolves | det |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ate | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fat | det |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fat | amod |
| 7 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fat | compound |
| 8 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fought | cc |
| 11 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fought | nsubj |
| 12 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fought | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fought | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 trap | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 trap | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trap | det |
| 21 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 trap | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | past | this wolves | the sweet moose fat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | Menabozho | with the trees | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tree=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | Menabozho not said here | the trap | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | noses = nose | the trap not said here | for Menabozho | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trap=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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