Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 42
If he goes back, Oweenee will be the wife of a warrior,” said the sisters.
Who acts: man, Oweenee, wife · What happens: go back, be, say · To what, where: wife, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Oweenee, wife), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 goes | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 6 | Oweenee | Oweenee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wife | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 warrior | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 warrior | det |
| 13 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sisters | det |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back a condition, not said to happen | present | man | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | future | Oweenee | the wife | of a warrior | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the wife | the sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sister=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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