Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 35
“Send meat and the child shall be well,” said the sun chief.
Who acts: child, sun chief · What happens: send, be, say · To what, where: meat · 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 (child, sun 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 | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 2 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Send | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 well | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 well | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 well | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 well | cop |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Send | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chief | compound |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | infinitive | meat | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | the child | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the sun chief | 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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