Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 8

Tchakobeech said: “I will go to the Happy Hunting Grounds and find my father and my mother.

Who acts: Tchakobeech · What happens: say, go, find · To what, where: Happy Hunting Grounds, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tchakobeech), 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	Tchakobeech	Tchakobeech	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 Grounds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Grounds	det
10	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Grounds	amod
11	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Grounds	compound
12	Grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 go	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mother	cc
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tchakobeech			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	future	Tchakobeech		the Happy Hunting Grounds	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grounds=Initial_Location
3	find in a quote	infinitive	Tchakobeech not said here	my father and my mother		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic

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, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 8