Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 32

He did not like it when they played tricks on him, and now he had no meat nor fat.

Who acts: Menabozho, tricks · What happens: not like, play, have · To what, where: tree, tricks, meat

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, tricks), 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	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 played	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 played	nsubj
8	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	advcl
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 played	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 played	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 had	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	parataxis
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 meat	det
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 fat	cc
20	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 meat	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	Menabozho	tree			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	play	past	tricks = trick	tricks		on Menabozho	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
3	have	past	Menabozho	no meat nor fat	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 32