Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 4

It was too deep to wade across, and he stood still thinking whether he should call his magic white canoe to help him or go back.

Who acts: It, Hiawatha · What happens: be, wade, stand, think, call, help · To what, where: magic white canoe, Hiawatha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Wampum or Indian Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Hiawatha), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 deep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 deep	advmod
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wade	mark
6	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 deep	csubj
7	across	across	ADV	_	6 wade	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	conj
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 stood	advmod
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stood	advcl
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 call	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 call	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 call	aux
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thinking	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 canoe	nmod:poss
19	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 canoe	amod
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 canoe	amod
21	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 help	mark
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 call	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 help	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				deep property	tree rules
2	wade	to-infinitive					across property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	Hiawatha			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	gerund	Hiawatha not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	call	should	Hiawatha	Hiawatha's magic white canoe				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent canoe=Recipient
6	help	to-infinitive	Hiawatha not said here		Hiawatha			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
7	go back	infinitive	Hiawatha not said here					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/78/4/

🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 4