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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho, sentence 4

The mud turtle which was watching did not know that he was the stump, so they went to sleep; then Menabozho got back his wolfskin from under the manitou, and the manitou did not need it any more.

Who acts: mud turtle, turtle, they, Menabozho, manitou · What happens: watch, not know, be, go, get back, not need · To what, where: stump, sleep, wolfskin, manitou

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 (mud turtle, turtle, they, 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

detcompoundnsubjnsubjauxacl:relclauxadvmodmarknsubjcopdetccomppunctadvmodnsubjparataxiscaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjconjadvmodnmod:possobjcasecasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjauxadvmodparataxisobjadvmodadvmodpunctrootTheDETmudNOUNturtleNOUNwhichPRONwasAUXwatchingVERBdidAUXnotPARTknowVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXtheDETstumpNOUN,PUNCTsoADVtheyPRONwentVERBtoADPsleepNOUN;PUNCTthenADVMenabozhoPROPNgotVERBbackADVhisPRONwolfskinNOUNfromADPunderADPtheDETmanitouNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETmanitouNOUNdidAUXnotPARTneedVERBitPRONanyADVmoreADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 turtledet
2mudmudNOUNNumber=Sing3 turtlecompound
3turtleturtleNOUNNumber=Sing9 knownsubj
4whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel6 watchingnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 watchingaux
6watchingwatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 turtleacl:relcl
7diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 knowaux
8notnotPARTPolarity=Neg9 knowadvmod
9knowknowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
10thatthatSCONJ_14 stumpmark
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 stumpnsubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 stumpcop
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 stumpdet
14stumpstumpNOUNNumber=Sing9 knowccomp
15,,PUNCT_18 wentpunct
16sosoADV_18 wentadvmod
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 wentnsubj
18wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 knowparataxis
19totoADP_20 sleepcase
20sleepsleepNOUNNumber=Sing18 wentobl
21;;PUNCT_24 gotpunct
22thenthenADVPronType=Dem24 gotadvmod
23MenabozhoMenabozhoPROPNNumber=Sing24 gotnsubj
24gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 knowconj
25backbackADV_24 gotadvmod
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 wolfskinnmod:poss
27wolfskinwolfskinNOUNNumber=Sing24 gotobj
28fromfromADP_31 manitoucase
29underunderADP_31 manitoucase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 manitoudet
31manitoumanitouNOUNNumber=Sing24 gotobl
32,,PUNCT_38 needpunct
33andandCCONJ_38 needcc
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 manitoudet
35manitoumanitouNOUNNumber=Sing38 neednsubj
36diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 needaux
37notnotPARTPolarity=Neg38 needadvmod
38needneedVERBVerbForm=Inf9 knowparataxis
39ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 needobj
40anyanyADV_41 moreadvmod
41moremoreADVDegree=Cmp38 needadvmod
42..PUNCT_9 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1watchpast · progressivethe mud turtlevn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2not knowpast · do-supportthe mud turtlevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3is apastturtlethe stumptree rules
4gopasttheysleepvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
5get backpastMenabozhoMenabozho's wolfskinthe manitouthenvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wolfskin=Theme from manitou=Source
6not needpast · do-supportthe manitouwolfskinvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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