--- title: Each bird took a piece of the fish and flew away, and Menabozho then… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics description: Each bird took a piece of the fish and flew away, and Menabozho then cut up the great creature and made much fish oil; he had a great plan in his mind and was glad to have this oil. Who acts: bird, Menabozho. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/75/17/) [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/) / [VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/75/) / 17 # Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 17 Each bird took a piece of the fish and flew away, and Menabozho then cut up the great creature and made much fish oil; he had a great plan in his mind and was glad to have this oil. **Who acts:** bird, Menabozho · **What happens:** take, fly away, cut up, make, have, be · **To what, where:** piece, great creature, much fish oil, great plan, mind, oil 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 (bird, Menabozho), 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:pg73136:75:17 # text = Each bird took a piece of the fish and flew away, and Menabozho then cut up the great creature and made much fish oil; he had a great plan in his mind and was glad to have this oil. 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 Menabozho Menabozho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | each bird | a piece of the fish | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 2 | **fly away** | past | each bird *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cut up** | past | Menabozho | the great creature | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Product | | 4 | **make** | past | Menabozho *not said here* | much fish oil | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oil=Product | | 5 | **have** | past | Menabozho | a great plan | | Menabozho's mind | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | Menabozho *not said here* | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | Menabozho *not said here* | this oil | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | | 8 | **mind** | | Menabozho | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/75/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/75/18/) - ↑ back to [VI. 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