Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 40
The wolves are better than my brother; The wolves are better than my sister.
Who acts: wolves · What happens: be
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 (wolves), 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 | 2 wolves | det |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 better | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 brother | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 better | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 better | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolves | det |
| 10 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 better | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 better | cop |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 better | conj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 sister | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 better | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the wolves | than my brother; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the wolves | than my sister; good property | tree rules |
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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