Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 18
“You are not wise,” said the great chief to the girl.
Who acts: You, great chief · What happens: not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, great 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 | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wise | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wise | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wise | advmod |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chief | amod |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | You | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the great chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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