Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 31
You must wait here until you find another heron as foolish as I am, to carry you the rest of the way.”
Who acts: You · What happens: wait, find, carry · To what, where: heron, you
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | aux |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wait | advmod |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | advcl |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 heron | det |
| 9 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 foolish | case |
| 11 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 find | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 am | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 am | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 foolish | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wait | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rest | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | must | You | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present | you | another heron | foolish property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Topic | |||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | You not said here | you | the rest of the way obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary rest=Value |
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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