Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 30
He called to it in the wolf language but got no answer.
Who acts: brother · What happens: call, get · To what, where: wolf, wolf language, answer · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 language | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 language | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 language | compound |
| 8 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 answer | det |
| 12 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | brother | wolf | the wolf language | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | get | past | brother not said here | no answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
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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