Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 5
There was much moose fat, so Menabozho made more birch-bark boxes and hid the fat in them near an oak tree.
Who acts: much moose fat, Menabozho · What happens: be, make, hide · To what, where: more bark boxes, fat, oak tree
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 (much moose fat, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fat | amod |
| 4 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | compound |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 8 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 boxes | amod |
| 11 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bark | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 birch | punct |
| 13 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boxes | compound |
| 14 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hid | cc |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fat | det |
| 18 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hid | obl |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | much moose fat | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Menabozho | more bark boxes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Product | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Menabozho not said here | the fat | a oak tree | in boxes = box | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Patient in they=Location |
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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