Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 29
Menabozho came down the tree very fast, but the wolf and her young ones were very strong from their good dinner.
Who acts: Menabozho, wolf · What happens: come down, be · To what, where: tree, good dinner
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, wolf), 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 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strong | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 strong | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strong | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ones | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ones | nmod:poss |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ones | amod |
| 15 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wolf | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strong | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 strong | advmod |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 dinner | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dinner | amod |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strong | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Menabozho | the tree | down, fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the wolf and wolf's young ones | roots's good dinner | strong property | tree rules |
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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