Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 27
He tried to pull up the tree he was in by the roots, but he could not do it with one hand.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: try, pull up, be, not do · To what, where: 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 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pull | mark |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 pull | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 in | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 in | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 tree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 roots | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roots | det |
| 13 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pull | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pull | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hand | nummod |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Menabozho | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Menabozho not said here | the tree | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Menabozho | the tree not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not do | could | Menabozho | tree | with one hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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