Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 6
The next day Menabozho saw the kingfisher sitting on a tree near the stream.
Who acts: Menabozho, kingfisher · What happens: see, sit · To what, where: kingfisher, tree
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 (Menabozho, kingfisher), 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 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingfisher | det |
| 7 | kingfisher | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kingfisher | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 stream | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stream | det |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Menabozho | the kingfisher | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingfisher=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the kingfisher not said here | a tree | near the stream | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location |
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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