Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 19

“Well, how did you ever know that he had a little dog like that, with a short tail?”

Who acts: you, muzzle · What happens: do, know, have · To what, where: little dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian’s Eye Training. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, muzzle), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 dog	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tail	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 tail	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tail	det
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tail	amod
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know in a quote	present	you		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have in a quote	past	muzzle	a little dog		like that; a short tail conj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 19