Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 23
We will be wise when we see the deer again at the salt licks,” said the older hunter.
Who acts: We, older hunter · What happens: be, see, say · To what, where: deer, salt licks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, older hunter), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wise | cop |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 see | advmod |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deer | det |
| 9 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 licks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 licks | det |
| 13 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 licks | compound |
| 14 | licks | lick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hunter | det |
| 19 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 hunter | amod |
| 20 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | We | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | we | the deer | the salt licks | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the older hunter | 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.
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