Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 32

Perhaps a great fire might come and burn up all these trees; perhaps the river may come and drown us.

Who acts: great fire, river · What happens: come, burn up, drown · To what, where: trees, us

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 (great fire, river), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fire	amod
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 burn	cc
8	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 burn	compound:prt
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 trees	det:predet
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burn	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drown	cc
20	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	conj
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 drown	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	might	a great fire		perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn up	infinitive	a great fire not said here	all trees		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	come	may	the river		perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drown	infinitive	the river not said here	us		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 32