Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 14
The mother porcupine stood in the council and said: “I have found this creature in the house I have made for my little ones.
Who acts: mother porcupine · What happens: stand, say, find, make · To what, where: council, creature, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother porcupine), 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 porcupine | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 porcupine | compound |
| 3 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 council | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 council | det |
| 7 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 creature | det |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creature | nmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 creature | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ones | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ones | nmod:poss |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ones | amod |
| 26 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the mother porcupine | the council | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in council=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother porcupine not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present · perfect | the mother porcupine = porcupine | this creature | the house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Topic | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · perfect | the mother porcupine = porcupine | this creature not said here | for my little ones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent creature=Product for one=Asset |
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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