Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 25

The bear ran down to the river and did just as the fox had told him, but the fishing place froze over while the bear waited for the fish to bite.

Who acts: bear, fishing place · What happens: run down, tell, freeze over, wait, bite · To what, where: fox, bear · 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 (bear, fishing place), 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 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	15 told	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 told	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fox	det
13	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 froze	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 froze	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 place	compound
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 froze	nsubj
22	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
23	over	over	ADV	_	22 froze	advmod
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 waited	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bear	det
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waited	nsubj
27	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 froze	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 fish	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fish	det
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waited	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 bite	mark
32	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 waited	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run down	past	the bear			to the river result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive · do-support		the fox	bear		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	freeze over	past	the fishing place			over property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	wait	past	the bear			for the fish	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bite	to-infinitive	the bear not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 25