Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 15
After their greeting was over Menabozho went back and found the birds still feeding on the fish.
Who acts: birds · What happens: be, find, feed, greet · To what, where: Menabozho, birds
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 (birds), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 greeting | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 Menabozho | case |
| 6 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birds | det |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 feeding | advmod |
| 14 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 fish | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fish | det |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feeding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Menabozho | after birds's greeting | go property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past | the birds | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | still | on the fish | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | greet | birds = bird | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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