Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 54
“It is a good trick,” they all said; then Menabozho laughed, and they were glad to see him.
Who acts: hunting, tricks, Menabozho · What happens: be, say, laugh, see · To what, where: good trick, 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 (hunting, tricks, 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 trick | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trick | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trick | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trick | amod |
| 6 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trick | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trick | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 laughed | advmod |
| 14 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glad | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 glad | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 glad | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 glad | cop |
| 20 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 glad | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | hunting | a good trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | tricks = trick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | Menabozho | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | tricks = trick | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | tricks = trick not said here | 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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