Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 35

“I have expected you,” he said, “and have just come to my door to welcome you.

Who acts: chief · What happens: expect, say, come, welcome · To what, where: chief, door, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 expected	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 expected	aux
4	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 expected	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 door	nmod:poss
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 welcome	mark
20	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 welcome	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect in a quote	present · perfect · passive		chief		you obj	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme you=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	chief				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present			my door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
4	welcome in a quote	to-infinitive		you			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 35