Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 4
“You shall eat after the manitou has talked to you,” said the father.
Who acts: You, father · What happens: eat, talk, say · To what, where: manitou, you · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 talked | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 manitou | det |
| 7 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 talked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 talked | aux |
| 9 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eat | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 talked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 father | det |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | shall | You | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the manitou | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the father | 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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