Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 22
“Follow that road down to the river and you will find a fishing place.
Who acts: you · What happens: follow, find · To what, where: road, fishing place
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 2 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Follow | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Follow | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 down | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Follow | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | compound |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that road | down property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | you | a fishing place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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