Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 9
I am brave; I must fight,” said the oldest brother.
Who acts: I, oldest brother · What happens: be, fight, 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 (I, oldest 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | cop |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 fight | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fight | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fight | aux |
| 7 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brave | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fight | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 12 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | must | I | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the oldest brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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