Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 4

He found it was better to live among the animals in the woods, but he did not like to say so to them.

Who acts: rabbit · What happens: find, be, live, not like, say · To what, where: woods · 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 (rabbit), 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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 better	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 found	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	csubj
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 animals	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woods	det
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 like	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 like	advmod
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 them	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	rabbit				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				good property	tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive			the woods	among the animals	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
4	not like	past · do-support	rabbit				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	rabbit not said here	woods = wood			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 4