Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 25

My grandfather has said that two herons can carry a load of fish, but you could carry such a load alone.”

Who acts: two herons, you · What happens: say, carry · To what, where: grandfather, load · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two herons, you), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandfather	nmod:poss
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 carry	mark
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 herons	nummod
7	herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carry	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 carry	aux
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 load	det
11	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 fish	case
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 load	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 carry	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 load	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 load	det
21	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carry	obj
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 carry	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		My grandfather		tree rules
2	carry	can	two herons	a load of fish		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
3	carry	could	you	such load	alone property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 25