Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 49

“I fasted many days, my father; then I ate strange food that came to me.

Who acts: boy, strange food · What happens: fast, eat, come · To what, where: strange food, boy

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, strange food), 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	_	3 fasted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fasted	nsubj
3	fasted	fast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fasted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 days	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ate	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fasted	conj
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 food	amod
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 food	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 came	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	fast in a quote	past	the boy = boy			day	tree rules
2	eat in a quote	past	the boy = boy	strange food		then	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	come in a quote	past	strange food		the boy = boy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 49