Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 19
“I am alone; let me have him and I shall be happy,” said the moon maiden.
Who acts: moon maiden · What happens: let, have, be, say · To what, where: moon maiden, chief · 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 (moon maiden), 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 | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 am | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | advcl |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 am | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happy | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 happy | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happy | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 happy | cop |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 let | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maiden | compound |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the moon maiden = maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | the moon maiden = maiden not said here | chief | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | the moon maiden = maiden | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the moon maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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