Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 55

There he found the girl whose face he had watched so many nights in the moon, and he never came back to earth.

Who acts: father · What happens: find, watch, not come back · To what, where: girl, moon, earth · 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 (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 found	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 watched	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 watched	aux
10	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 found	ccomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nights	amod
13	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watched	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 moon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 came	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 earth	case
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	past	father	the girl the girl the girl's face's face	there		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent girl=Attribute clause=Theme
2	watch	past · perfect	father		the moon	night	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moon=Location
3	not come back	past	father		earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 55