Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 12
The fox did not like the wolf, but told him the trick he had played on the Indian.
Who acts: fox · What happens: not like, tell, play · To what, where: wolf, trick, fox, Indian · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trick | det |
| 13 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 played | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 played | aux |
| 16 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Indian | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Indian | det |
| 19 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 played | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the fox | the wolf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wolf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the trick | fox | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | past · perfect | fox | the Indian | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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