Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 32

We have a dog called Chutko,[18] who can hear a wolf coming a mile off, and he'll be sure to let us know."

Who acts: We, 18, wolf, man, us · What happens: have, call, hear, come off, be, let · To what, where: dog, wolf, mile, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 18, wolf, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dog	acl
6	Chutko	Chutko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	9 18	punct
9	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 hear	nsubj
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	9 18	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hear	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wolf	det
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
16	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hear	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mile	det
18	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coming	obl:unmarked
19	off	off	ADP	_	16 coming	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sure	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sure	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sure	nsubj
23	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sure	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sure	cop
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 let	mark
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sure	xcomp
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	a dog		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	call	participle		a dog not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	can	18	a wolf		tree rules
4	come off	gerund	a wolf not said here	a mile		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
5	is	future	man		sure property	tree rules
6	let	to-infinitive	man not said here	us		tree rules
7	know	infinitive	us not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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