Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 19

“Come, let us go and see who is across the lake,” she said to the little one.

Who acts: us, sister · What happens: come, let, go, see, be, say · To what, where: us, lake, little one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, sister), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lake	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lake	cop
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 one	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see in a quote	infinitive	us not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present				the lake	who nsubj	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	sister		the little one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 19