Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 27
His white feathers were stained by the pitch, but Menabozho painted his head with war paint.
Who acts: pitch, Menabozho · What happens: stain, paint · To what, where: white feathers, head
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 (pitch, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feathers | amod |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stained | aux:pass |
| 5 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pitch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pitch | det |
| 8 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 painted | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 painted | cc |
| 11 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | nsubj |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stained | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 paint | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 paint | compound |
| 17 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stain | past · passive | the pitch | Menabozho's white feathers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | paint | past | Menabozho | Menabozho's head | with war paint | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with paint=Theme |
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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