Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 13

Leelinaw came back and said: “His voice and his people are strange to me.

Who acts: Leelinaw, voice · What happens: come back, say, be · To what, where: Leelinaw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leelinaw, voice), 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	Leelinaw	Leelinaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 strange	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 strange	punct
8	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 voice	nmod:poss
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strange	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 people	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 people	nmod:poss
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 voice	conj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 strange	cop
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 strange	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come back	past	Leelinaw			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Leelinaw not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	stranger's voice and stranger's people	Leelinaw	strange property	tree rules

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, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 13