Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 84
He is constantly doing many tricks to annoy the water manitous, who annoy him in return.
Who acts: form · What happens: do, annoy · To what, where: many tricks, water, form, return
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (form), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 4 doing | advmod |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tricks | amod |
| 6 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 doing | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 annoy | mark |
| 8 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 doing | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 annoy | obj |
| 11 | manitous | manitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 annoy | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 annoy | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 annoy | nsubj |
| 14 | annoy | annoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 annoy | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 return | case |
| 17 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 annoy | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | form | many tricks | constantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | annoy | to-infinitive | form not said here | the water | manitous property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus water=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | annoy | present | form | return | who nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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