Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 17
A great gray fox rose then and answered: “I live on geese and the birds of the forest.
Who acts: great gray fox · What happens: rise, answer, live · 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 (great gray fox), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fox | amod |
| 3 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fox | compound |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rose | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | cc |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 geese | case |
| 14 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 live | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 birds | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 birds | det |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 geese | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 birds | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a great gray fox | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a great gray fox not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | a great gray fox = fox | on geese and the birds of the forest | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on goose=Location |
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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