Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 16

After this he told her that he was a great warrior now and must have two wives; he was going to marry the chief’s daughter.

Who acts: feast · What happens: tell, be, have, go, marry · To what, where: warrior, great warrior, two wives, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 told	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 warrior	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 warrior	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 warrior	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 warrior	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 warrior	amod
11	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 warrior	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wives	nummod
17	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 marry	mark
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chief	det
25	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 daughter	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 chief	case
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marry	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	feast		warrior	after this	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	past	feast	a great warrior		now	tree rules
3	have	must	feast not said here	two wives			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
4	go	past · progressive	feast				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry	to-infinitive	feast not said here	the chief's daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 16