Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 69

“Go back,” said the voice, “go back to the land of the Chippewas and teach them.

Who acts: voice · What happens: go back, say, teach · To what, where: animals · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 voice	det
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Chippewas	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Chippewas	det
18	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 land	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 teach	cc
20	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 teach	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back in a quote	infinitive				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the voice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go back in a quote	infinitive			to the land of the Chippewas result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result
4	teach speech: other in a quote	infinitive		animals = animal		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 69