Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 2
One day Menabozho went fishing with hook and line in Gitchee Gumee, the Big Sea Water.
Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: go, fish
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), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hook | case |
| 7 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fishing | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 line | cc |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hook | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Gitchee | case |
| 11 | Gitchee | Gitchee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hook | nmod |
| 12 | Gumee | Gumee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gitchee | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Water | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Water | det |
| 15 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Water | amod |
| 16 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Water | compound |
| 17 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gitchee | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Menabozho | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fish | gerund | Menabozho not said here | with hook in Gitchee and the Big Sea Water and line | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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