Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 31
We do not think enough about what might happen out here in the country.
Who acts: We · What happens: not think, happen out · To what, where: enough, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | obj |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 happen | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 happen | compound:prt |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 happen | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happen | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | We | enough | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent enough=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen out | might | the country; here | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=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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