Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 33
The wolf could not wait to find another foolish heron, but went straight to the bottom of the river.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: not wait, find, go · To what, where: foolish heron, bottom
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), 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 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | advcl |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 heron | det |
| 9 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heron | amod |
| 10 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 bottom | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bottom | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | could | the wolf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | another foolish heron | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the bottom of the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location |
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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