Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 24
Wait until the fish bite it, then snatch them out.”
Who acts: you, fish · What happens: wait, bite, snatch out · To what, where: tail, them
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, fish), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 bite | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bite | nsubj |
| 5 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bite | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 snatch | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 snatch | advmod |
| 9 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 snatch | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 snatch | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bite | present | the fish | tail | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | snatch out | infinitive | you not said here | them = they | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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