Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 44
The little one was now a wolf, and he called to the pack to follow him, for he had found the track of a deer.
Who acts: little one, brother · What happens: be, call, follow, find · To what, where: wolf, pack, brother, track · 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 (little one, 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 one | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wolf | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wolf | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 wolf | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pack | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pack | det |
| 14 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 called | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | aux |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 follow | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 track | det |
| 24 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 deer | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 deer | det |
| 27 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 track | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wolf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the little one | a wolf | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | past | brother | a wolf not said here | the pack | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic to pack=Recipient | |||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | brother not said here | brother | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect | brother | the track of a deer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=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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