Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 19
This island had miles of blackest pitch on all of its shores; not even a water manitou could swim through this pitch.
Who acts: island, water manitou · What happens: have, not swim · To what, where: miles, shores, pitch
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 (island, water manitou), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pitch | case |
| 6 | blackest | black | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 pitch | amod |
| 7 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miles | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shores | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 shores | det |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shores | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shores | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 swim | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 swim | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 manitou | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 manitou | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manitou | compound |
| 18 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swim | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 swim | aux |
| 20 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 pitch | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 pitch | det |
| 23 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swim | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this island | miles of blackest pitch | island's shores | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient | |||
| 2 | not swim | could | a water manitou | this pitch | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pitch=Trajectory |
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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