Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 7

Menabozho sat on the ground and ate much moose meat; while he was eating he heard a noise over his head and saw that two trees were pulling each other.

Who acts: Menabozho, two trees · What happens: sit, eat, hear, see, pull · To what, where: ground, much moose meat, noise, head, each

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, two trees), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ate	cc
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meat	amod
9	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meat	compound
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 eating	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 eating	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eating	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eating	aux
15	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ate	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eating	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 noise	det
19	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 pulling	mark
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 trees	nummod
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pulling	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pulling	aux
29	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 saw	advcl
30	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	29 pulling	obj
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 each	fixed
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	Menabozho		the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
2	eat	past	Menabozho not said here	much moose meat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	eat	past · progressive	Menabozho			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	Menabozho	a noise	Menabozho's head	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
5	see	past	Menabozho not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	pull	past · progressive	two trees	each		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 7