Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 50
He heard the Indian boys whoop and knew they had seen him.
Who acts: Menabozho, Indian boys, boys · What happens: hear, whoop, know, see · To what, where: Menabozho · 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, Indian boys, boys), 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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 whoop | nsubj |
| 6 | whoop | whoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Menabozho | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | whoop speech: other | present | the Indian boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Menabozho not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | boys = boy | Menabozho | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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