Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 14

Leelinaw will go with him, for her father commands her to do it; but first let your child have one more day in the grove by the Big Sea Water.”

Who acts: Leelinaw, father, child · What happens: go, command, do, let, have · To what, where: Leelinaw, heart, child, grove · 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, father, child), 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	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 commands	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 commands	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 commands	nsubj
10	commands	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 commands	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 commands	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 child	nmod:poss
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obj
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 day	nummod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 day	amod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 grove	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grove	det
27	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	32 Water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Water	det
30	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Sea	compound
31	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Water	compound
32	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 grove	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	Leelinaw				with stranger	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
2	command	present	Leelinaw's father	Leelinaw				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	Leelinaw's father not said here	heart				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	let	infinitive	Leelinaw not said here	your child			first property	tree rules
5	have	infinitive	your child not said here		the grove by the Sea Water	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 14