Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 16

He wanted to cross the river, and when the blue heron came back the wolf asked him to do the same thing that he had done for the weasels.

Who acts: wolf, blue heron · What happens: want, cross, come back, ask, do · To what, where: river, heron, same thing

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, blue heron), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cross	mark
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heron	det
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heron	amod
12	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wolf	det
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 do	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 done	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 thing	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 weasels	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 weasels	det
30	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 done	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	wolf				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	cross not said to happen	to-infinitive	wolf not said here	the river			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
3	come back	past	the blue heron				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the wolf		heron		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here	the same thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
6	do	past · perfect	wolf	the same thing		for the weasels	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 16