Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 40
Menabozho put his arm around the tree and said: “What is your name, Brother Tree?”
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: put, say, be · To what, where: arm, tree, name · 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), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arm | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 name | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 name | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Brother | punct |
| 17 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | appos |
| 18 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brother | flat |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 Brother | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Menabozho | Menabozho's arm | the tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Menabozho not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your name | What nsubj; your nmod:poss; Brother appos | 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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