Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 36

“My brother has gone, my sister has gone, my little wolf has gone; I shall starve and freeze,” said the boy.

Who acts: brother, sister, little wolf, boy · What happens: go, starve, freeze, say · 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, sister, little wolf, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 starve	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 gone	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wolf	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wolf	amod
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 gone	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 starve	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 starve	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 starve	aux
20	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 freeze	cc
22	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 starve	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 starve	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 starve	punct
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · perfect	My brother	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go in a quote	present · perfect	my sister	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go in a quote	present · perfect	my little wolf	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	starve in a quote	shall	the boy = boy	tree rules
5	freeze in a quote	infinitive	the boy = boy not said here	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	the boy	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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 36