Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 40

The moon maiden said: “You are going back to sickness, to cold, and to war, but you belong to me and must never take a wife from your people.

Who acts: moon maiden, You · What happens: say, go back, belong, not take · To what, where: moon maiden, wife · 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 (moon maiden, You), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maiden	compound
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 sickness	case
12	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cold	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 cold	case
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 going	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 war	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 war	cc
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 war	case
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 belong	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 belong	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 belong	nsubj
23	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 belong	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 take	cc
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 take	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 take	advmod
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 belong	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wife	det
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 people	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 people	nmod:poss
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 take	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the moon maiden				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go back in a quote	present · progressive	You			to sickness result; to war	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sickness=Result
3	belong in a quote	present	you		the moon maiden = maiden		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	not take in a quote	must	you not said here	a wife		from your people	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme from people=Initial_Location

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 40