Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 7
The Indian wanted the fox’s skin, but did not have time to take it.
Who acts: Indian · What happens: want, not have, take · To what, where: skin
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 (Indian), 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 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 fox | case |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | conj |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Indian | the fox's skin | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not have | past · do-support | the Indian not said here | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the Indian not said here | skin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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