Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 22

He said to the birds that he would fly to his tribe, and he did.

Who acts: hunter · What happens: say, fly, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 birds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 tribe	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tribe	nmod:poss
12	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	hunter	to the birds	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to bird=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	fly	would	hunter	to hunter's tribe result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tribe=Result
3	do	past	hunter		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 22