Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 11
Menabozho prayed to the Great Manitou that the wind might blow from the south.
Who acts: Menabozho, wind · What happens: pray, blow
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho, wind), 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 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 prayed | nsubj |
| 2 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Manitou | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Manitou | det |
| 5 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Manitou | amod |
| 6 | Manitou | Manitou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 prayed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 blow | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 blow | aux |
| 11 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 prayed | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 south | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 south | det |
| 14 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Menabozho | to the Great Manitou | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | blow | might | the wind | from the south | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from south=Co-Patient |
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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