Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 17
Each bird took a piece of the fish and flew away, and Menabozho then cut up the great creature and made much fish oil; he had a great plan in his mind and was glad to have this oil.
Who acts: bird, Menabozho · What happens: take, fly away, cut up, make, have, be · To what, where: piece, great creature, much fish oil, great plan, mind, oil
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 (bird, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fish | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flew | cc |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 flew | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cut | cc |
| 14 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | nsubj |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 cut | advmod |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 cut | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 creature | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | conj |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 oil | amod |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 oil | compound |
| 25 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 plan | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 plan | amod |
| 31 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 mind | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mind | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 plan | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 glad | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 glad | cop |
| 37 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 had | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 have | mark |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 glad | xcomp |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 oil | det |
| 41 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | each bird | a piece of the fish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly away | past | each bird not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut up | past | Menabozho | the great creature | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Product | |||
| 4 | make | past | Menabozho not said here | much fish oil | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oil=Product | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Menabozho | a great plan | Menabozho's mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | past | Menabozho not said here | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | Menabozho not said here | this oil | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | ||||
| 8 | mind | Menabozho | nom mind «cognition 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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