Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 35

“We found a wolf’s head near your wigwam, and we smelled the tracks of some one that went around the lake,” said the leader wolf.

Who acts: We, leader wolf · What happens: find, smell, go, say · To what, where: head, wigwam, tracks, lake · 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 (We, leader wolf), 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	_	3 found	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 wolf	case
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 wigwam	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wigwam	nmod:poss
10	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smelled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 smelled	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 smelled	nsubj
14	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tracks	det
16	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 smelled	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 tracks	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
22	around	around	ADP	_	24 lake	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smelled	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wolf	det
29	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wolf	compound
30	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	We	a wolf's head	your wigwam	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	smell in a quote	past	we	the tracks of some one		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus
3	go in a quote	past			the lake	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around lake=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the leader wolf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 35