Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 21
I am hungry; give me more meat,” was his answer.
Who acts: I, answer, brother · What happens: be, give, answer · To what, where: more meat, me · 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 (I, answer, brother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | cop |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hungry | parataxis |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 meat | amod |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 answer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | more meat | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | past | brother's answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | answer in a quote | brother | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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