Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 9
The porcupine squaw said, “I will call a council, for I do not know what to feed you.”
Who acts: porcupine squaw · What happens: say, call, not know, feed · To what, where: council, you · 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 (porcupine squaw), 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 squaw | det |
| 2 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squaw | compound |
| 3 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 call | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | aux |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 council | det |
| 11 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 call | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 feed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 feed | mark |
| 20 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 feed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the porcupine squaw | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | future | the porcupine squaw = squaw | a council | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the porcupine squaw = squaw | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | feed in a quote | to-infinitive | you | what obj | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient you=Theme |
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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