Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 42
“White Oak does not grow near water; I must go further,” said Menabozho.
Who acts: White Oak, Menabozho · What happens: not grow, go, say · To what, where: water · 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 (White Oak, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Oak | amod |
| 3 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 grow | advmod |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grow | conj |
| 13 | further | further | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow in a quote | present · do-support | White Oak | water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near water=Location | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | must | Menabozho | further property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Menabozho | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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