--- title: Menabozho fastened around the bird’s neck a beautiful white collar,… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics description: Menabozho fastened around the bird’s neck a beautiful white collar, which he wears to this day; then the kingfisher told him how he had seen the wolf caught while leaping across the water the day before, and said: Who acts: Menabozho, beautiful white collar, kingfisher. A sentence of «Wigwam stories --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/73/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/73/) / 11 # Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 11 Menabozho fastened around the bird’s neck a beautiful white collar, which he wears to this day; then the kingfisher told him how he had seen the wolf caught while leaping across the water the day before, and said: **Who acts:** Menabozho, beautiful white collar, kingfisher · **What happens:** fasten, wear, tell, see, catch, leap · **To what, where:** beautiful white collar, neck, Menabozho, wolf, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho, beautiful white collar, kingfisher), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73136:73:11 # text = Menabozho fastened around the bird’s neck a beautiful white collar, which he wears to this day; then the kingfisher told him how he had seen the wolf caught while leaping across the water the day before, and said: 1 Menabozho Menabozho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fastened fasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 around around ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kingfisher kingfisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 ccomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 leaping leap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 34 across across ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 before before ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fasten** | past | Menabozho | a beautiful white collar | | the bird's neck | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient | | 2 | **wear** | present | a beautiful white collar | | | | day | Menabozho *nsubj* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the kingfisher | | Menabozho | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Menabozho | the wolf | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus | | 5 | **catch** | participle | | the wolf *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leap** | gerund | | | | the water | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across water=Trajectory | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/73/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/73/12/) - ↑ back to [IV. 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