Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho, sentence 5
All the other water manitous gave chase after Menabozho to avenge their brother.
Who acts: other water manitous · What happens: give, avenge · To what, where: chase, brother
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 (other water manitous), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 manitous | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 manitous | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 manitous | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manitous | compound |
| 5 | manitous | manitou | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 Menabozho | case |
| 9 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 avenge | mark |
| 11 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gave | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 avenge | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | all other water manitous | chase | after Menabozho | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme | |||
| 2 | avenge | to-infinitive | all other water manitous not said here | their brother | tree rules |
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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