Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 43

“I have seen a manitou; I am to be called Cloud Catcher,” said the boy, as his father took his hand and led him into their wigwam.

Who acts: boy, father · What happens: see, call, say, take, lead · To what, where: manitou, boy, hand, father, wigwam · 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	_	4 seen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 manitou	det
6	manitou	manitou	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 called	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux:pass
10	to	to	PART	_	12 called	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 called	aux:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seen	conj
13	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
14	Catcher	Catcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Cloud	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seen	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 took	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 led	cc
28	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 led	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 wigwam	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wigwam	nmod:poss
32	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 led	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	the boy = boy	a manitou			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manitou=Stimulus
2	call in a quote	present · passive		the boy = boy		Cloud xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	past	boy's father	father's hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	lead	past	boy's father not said here	father	clouds's wigwam		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into wigwam=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 43