Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 20

Menabozho carried the fish oil over and poured it on the pitch; wherever the oil touched the pitch it was never sticky again.

Who acts: Menabozho, oil · What happens: carry, pour, touch, not be · To what, where: fish oil, oil, 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 (Menabozho, oil), 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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oil	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oil	compound
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
6	over	over	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poured	cc
8	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 poured	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 pitch	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pitch	det
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poured	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 touched	punct
14	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	17 touched	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 oil	det
16	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 touched	nsubj
17	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pitch	det
19	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 touched	obj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sticky	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sticky	cop
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 sticky	advmod
23	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 touched	parataxis
24	again	again	ADV	_	23 sticky	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Menabozho	the fish oil			over property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
2	pour	past	Menabozho not said here	oil	the pitch			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	touch	past	the oil	the pitch			wherever property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pitch=Co-Theme
4	not is	past	oil			again	sticky property	tree rules

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 20