Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 23

“Come, children,” said the wolf, “use your noses and you will find more food.”

Who acts: wolf, you · What happens: come, say, use, find · To what, where: children, noses, more food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 children	punct
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
12	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 noses	nmod:poss
14	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 use	conj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 food	amod
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive		children	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the wolf		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	use in a quote	infinitive		your noses	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
4	find in a quote	future	you	more food	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 23