Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 104

He went back to the far north when he had fished all he wanted to, and he gave the leaf to his squaw.

Who acts: Iagoo · What happens: go back, fish, want, give · To what, where: leaf, squaw

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iagoo), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 north	amod
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fished	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fished	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fished	aux
11	fished	fish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	parataxis
12	all	all	ADV	_	14 wanted	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fished	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	14 wanted	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaf	det
21	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 squaw	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 squaw	nmod:poss
24	squaw	squaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Iagoo			to the far north result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to north=Result
2	fish	past · perfect	Iagoo				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	Iagoo			all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	give	past	Iagoo	the leaf	Iagoo's squaw		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme to squaw=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, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 104