Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 54

I wanted to be like the rest, and now I have long ears; but I have only a little ball of fur for a tail.

Who acts: I · What happens: want, be, have · To what, where: long ears, little ball

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 rest	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 have	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ears	amod
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 ball	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ball	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ball	amod
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 fur	case
24	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ball	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 tail	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tail	det
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fur	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			like the rest	tree rules
3	have	present	I	long ears	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
4	have	present	I	a little ball of fur for a tail			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 54