Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 39

One day he said: “I will go back to my own country; there my arrows will bring my meat to me, and no one will need to be sick.”

Who acts: chief, arrows, one · What happens: say, go back, bring, need, be · To what, where: meat, 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 (chief, arrows, one), 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	4 said	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 country	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 country	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 country	amod
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 bring	expl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arrows	nmod:poss
18	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bring	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bring	aux
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 meat	nmod:poss
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 need	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 need	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 need	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 need	aux
30	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	33 sick	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 sick	cop
33	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 need	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 need	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	chief				day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go back in a quote	future	chief					to my own country result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result
3	bring in a quote	future	my arrows	my meat	chief	there			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to i=Destination
4	need in a quote	future	no one						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
5	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	no one not said here					sick property	tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 39