Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 20
“I cannot walk so far; you have not made me new moccasins.
Who acts: sister · What happens: not walk, not make · To what, where: you
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 (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 | _ | 5 walk | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 walk | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 walk | advmod |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 walk | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 made | advmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 walk | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moccasins | amod |
| 15 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk in a quote | can | sister | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | me obj; new moccasins obj | 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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