Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 23

She killed the pet wolf when the boy did not see, and made a great kettle of soup from its flesh and the water in the lake.

Who acts: answer, boy · What happens: kill, not see, make · To what, where: pet wolf, great kettle, flesh

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 (answer, boy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wolf	compound
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 see	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 killed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 kettle	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kettle	amod
17	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 soup	case
19	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kettle	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 flesh	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 flesh	nmod:poss
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 water	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flesh	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 lake	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lake	det
28	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past	answer	the pet wolf			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
2	not see	past · do-support	the boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past	answer not said here	a great kettle of soup	soup's flesh and the water	in the lake	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset kettle=Product from flesh=Material

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 23