Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 3
A large fish came along and swallowed the hook and line, swallowed Menabozho and his canoe, swallowed everything, just like a big sea cave.
Who acts: large fish · What happens: come along, swallow · To what, where: hook, Menabozho, everything
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 (large fish), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swallowed | cc |
| 7 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hook | det |
| 9 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swallowed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 line | cc |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hook | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swallowed | punct |
| 13 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 14 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 swallowed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 canoe | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 17 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Menabozho | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swallowed | punct |
| 19 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 swallowed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cave | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 cave | advmod |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 cave | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cave | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cave | amod |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cave | compound |
| 27 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 everything | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | a large fish | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past | a large fish not said here | the hook and line | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past | Menabozho and Menabozho's canoe | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent menabozho=Patient | |||||
| 4 | swallow | past | everything | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
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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