Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 85

The land creatures often attempt to outwit him; many humorous stories told of him by the Ojibways have become famous as a part of the story of Hiawatha.

Who acts: land creatures, many humorous stories, Ojibways · What happens: attempt, outwit, tell, become · To what, where: form · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (land creatures, many humorous stories, Ojibways), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creatures	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creatures	compound
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 attempt	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 attempt	advmod
5	attempt	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 outwit	mark
7	outwit	outwit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attempt	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 outwit	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stories	amod
11	humorous	humorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stories	amod
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 attempt	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	obl
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 become	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Ojibways	det
18	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 become	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 become	aux
20	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 told	ccomp
21	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 become	xcomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 part	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 part	det
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 famous	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 story	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 part	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Hiawatha	case
29	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 story	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 attempt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	attempt	present	the land creatures		often property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	outwit not said to happen	to-infinitive	the land creatures not said here	form		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	many humorous stories		of form	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	become	present · perfect	the Ojibways		famous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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.

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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 85

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 85