Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 56
Menabozho told many stories, but he did not tell how the wolves, the trees, and the moose head all played tricks on him.
Who acts: Menabozho, moose head · What happens: tell, not tell, play · To what, where: many stories, wolves, tricks · 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, moose head), 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 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 tell | advmod |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 wolves | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolves | det |
| 13 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tell | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trees | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wolves | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 played | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 played | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 20 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | compound |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 played | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 played | advmod |
| 23 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 24 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 played | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 played | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Menabozho | many stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Menabozho | the wolves and the trees | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | play | past | the moose head | tricks | on Menabozho; all property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
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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