Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 20
Come, my friend, help a poor wolf that is hungry and in trouble.”
Who acts: you, poor wolf · What happens: come, help, be · To what, where: poor wolf
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 (you, poor wolf), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wolf | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wolf | amod |
| 9 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trouble | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 trouble | case |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hungry | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | my friend vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | you not said here | a poor wolf | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a poor wolf | trouble conj; hungry property | tree rules |
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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