Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 29
The little brother cried when he could not find his sister, and went to look for his pet wolf.
Who acts: little brother, brother · What happens: cry, not find, go, look · To what, where: sister
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 (little brother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 wolf | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wolf | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wolf | compound |
| 20 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the little brother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not find | could | brother | brother's sister | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the little brother not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the little brother not said here | for brother's pet wolf | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wolf=Theme |
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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