Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 26

One day the boy went to the great sun chief and said: “I used to eat much when in my father’s wigwam.

Who acts: boy · What happens: go, say, use, eat · To what, where: great sun 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 (boy), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 chief	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chief	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chief	amod
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chief	compound
10	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	much	much	ADV	_	18 eat	advmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 eat	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 wigwam	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wigwam	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 father	case
25	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 when	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the boy	the great sun chief	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	use in a quote	past	the boy = boy			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 26