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title: The wolf could not wait to find another foolish heron, but went stra… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The wolf could not wait to find another foolish heron, but went straight to the bottom of the river. Who acts: wolf. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 33

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The wolf could not wait to find another foolish heron, but went straight to the bottom of the river.

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**Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** not wait, find, go · **To what, where:** foolish heron, bottom

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:38:33
# text = The wolf could not wait to find another foolish heron, but went straight to the bottom of the river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heron	heron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | could | the wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* | another foolish heron |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the bottom of the river |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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