Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 7
“My brother,” said Menabozho the Sly One, “can you tell me where Menabozho’s brother wolf is?”
Who acts: brother, you, brother wolf · What happens: say, tell, be · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brother, you, brother wolf), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sly | det |
| 9 | Sly | Sly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Sly | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 is | advmod |
| 18 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wolf | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Menabozho | case |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wolf | compound |
| 21 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | My brother | Menabozho nsubj; the Sly ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | My brother = brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | Menabozho's brother wolf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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