Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 15

He would answer any questions the marten would ask, because those who come out of a town always know a great deal.

Who acts: rabbit, marten, town · What happens: answer, ask, come out, know · To what, where: questions, great deal

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit, marten, town), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	aux
3	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 questions	det
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 answer	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 marten	det
7	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	aux
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 questions	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 those	case
12	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 come	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 town	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 deal	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deal	amod
23	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 know	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	would	rabbit	any questions		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	would	the marten	any questions not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	come out	present			because those; of a town; who nsubj; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	know	present	a town not said here	a great deal	always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 15