Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 18
The wolf jumped up very sore and ran away to find the fox.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: jump up, run away, find · 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 (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 | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sore | advmod |
| 6 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jumped | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ran | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the wolf | sore property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | the wolf not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | the fox | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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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