Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 3
He put the meat in boxes made of birch bark and hid the boxes by a sweet-water tree, which the white men call a maple tree.
Who acts: Menabozho, white men · What happens: put, make, hide, call · To what, where: meat, boxes, water tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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, white men), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meat | det |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 boxes | case |
| 6 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boxes | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bark | case |
| 9 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bark | compound |
| 10 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hid | cc |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boxes | det |
| 14 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hid | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 17 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweet | punct |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 call | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 call | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 men | det |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 men | amod |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 call | nsubj |
| 26 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tree | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 28 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tree | compound |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 call | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Menabozho | the meat | boxes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in box=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | participle | boxes not said here | of birch bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Menabozho not said here | the boxes | by a water tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Patient by tree=Location | |||
| 4 | call | present | the white men | a water tree | a maple tree obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme tree=Result |
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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