Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 3

“I like to eat; it is hard to be faint and hungry,” said the boy when his father took him to the little wigwam in the forest.

Who acts: boy, father · What happens: like, eat, be, say, take · To what, where: boy, forest · 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, father), 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	_	3 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hard	expl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	cop
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 like	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 faint	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 faint	cop
12	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hard	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hungry	cc
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 faint	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 took	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 wigwam	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wigwam	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wigwam	amod
28	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	present	the boy = boy				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the boy = boy not said here			hard property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here			faint property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		the boy = boy not said here				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	take	past	boy's father	boy	the forest	to the little wigwam	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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 3