Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 48

He knew there were many Indians in a teepee village near that river, and they would help him.

Who acts: Basswood, Indians · What happens: know, be, help · To what, where: many Indians, teepee village, Basswood · 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 (Basswood, Indians), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	ccomp
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Indians	amod
6	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 village	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 village	det
9	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 village	compound
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 village	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 help	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 help	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 help	aux
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 help	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	Basswood	many Indians		a teepee village near that river	tree rules
2	be	past				there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	would	Indians = indian		Basswood		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 48