Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 14
The mud turtle will sit on a stone and keep watch for Menabozho.
Who acts: mud turtle · What happens: sit, keep · To what, where: stone, watch
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mud turtle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 turtle | det |
| 2 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turtle | compound |
| 3 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | aux |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sit | conj |
| 11 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Menabozho | case |
| 13 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | future | the mud turtle | a stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | the mud turtle not said here | watch | for Menabozho | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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