Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 15
The stupid wolf ran away, and after seeing the Indian, lay down and waited as the fox had told him.
Who acts: stupid wolf · What happens: run away, see, lay down, wait, tell · To what, where: Indian, fox, wolf · 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 (stupid wolf), 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 | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lay | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Indian | det |
| 11 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waited | cc |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 told | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fox | det |
| 19 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 waited | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | the stupid wolf | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the Indian | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indian=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | the stupid wolf not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | the stupid wolf not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the fox | wolf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
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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