Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho, sentence 3
The bear which was watching for Menabozho did not see him.
Who acts: bear · What happens: watch, not see · To what, where: Menabozho
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 (bear), 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 | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 watching | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watching | aux |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 bear | acl:relcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Menabozho | case |
| 7 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obl |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | the bear | for Menabozho | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for menabozho=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | the bear | Menabozho | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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