Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 5
“I will not fast; let me have my bow and arrows and I will hunt for you,” said the boy.
Who acts: boy · What happens: let, have, hunt, say · To what, where: boy, bow · 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), 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 | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 will | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 will | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arrows | cc |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bow | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hunt | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hunt | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hunt | aux |
| 17 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hunt | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | future | the boy = boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | the boy = boy not said here | my bow and arrows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hunt in a quote | future | the boy = boy | for you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | 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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