Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 4
When Menabozho waked out of his sleep he saw a squirrel sitting on the canoe beside him.
Who acts: Menabozho, squirrel · What happens: wake, see, sit, sleep · To what, where: sleep, squirrel, canoe
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, squirrel), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 waked | advmod |
| 2 | Menabozho | Menabozho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waked | nsubj |
| 3 | waked | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waked | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 squirrel | det |
| 11 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 squirrel | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 canoe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 canoe | det |
| 15 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sitting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Menabozho | Menabozho's sleep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Menabozho | a squirrel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer squirrel=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a squirrel not said here | the canoe | beside Menabozho | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on canoe=Location | |||
| 4 | sleep | Menabozho | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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