Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 16
The Indian found him, but he was not to be fooled twice by the same trick.
Who acts: Indian, same trick · What happens: find, not fool · To what, where: fox
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 (Indian, same trick), 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 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fooled | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fooled | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fooled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fooled | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fooled | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fooled | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fooled | aux:pass |
| 12 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 13 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 fooled | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 trick | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trick | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trick | amod |
| 17 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fooled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Indian | fox | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not fool | past · passive | the same trick | fox | twice property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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