Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 16

The Good Spirit whispered to his heart that she must not see nor speak to one of them until the fifth one came to her wigwam.

Who acts: Good Spirit, sister, fifth one · What happens: whisper, not see, speak, come · To what, where: heart, one, wigwam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good Spirit, sister, fifth one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Spirit	det
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Spirit	amod
3	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 whispered	nsubj
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whispered	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 whispered	advcl
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 speak	cc
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 speak	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 wigwam	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wigwam	nmod:poss
26	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	the Good Spirit	other's heart		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heart=Recipient
2	not see	must	sister			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	sister not said here	one of spirits		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent
4	come	past	the fifth one		sister's wigwam	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location

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, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 16