Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 4
How could he get a fish without letting the Indian know?
Who acts: fox · What happens: get, let · To what, where: fish, Indian know
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 (fox), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 letting | mark |
| 8 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 get | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 know | det |
| 10 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | amod |
| 11 | know | know | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letting | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | fox | a fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | fox not said here | the Indian know | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent know=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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