Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho, sentence 11
He called the woodchuck his brother because he helped to hide Menabozho from the water manitous.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: call, help, hide · To what, where: woodchuck, Menabozho, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woodchuck | det |
| 4 | woodchuck | woodchuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 helped | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helped | nsubj |
| 9 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hide | mark |
| 11 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helped | xcomp |
| 12 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hide | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hide | obl |
| 16 | manitous | manitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hide | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Menabozho | the woodchuck | Menabozho's brother xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodchuck=Recipient | |||
| 2 | help | past | Menabozho | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | Menabozho not said here | Menabozho | the water | manitous property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent menabozho=Patient from water=Beneficiary |
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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