Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 7
You may sleep where you can find a place, but never come back to me until you have talked to a manitou,” said the warrior.
Who acts: You · What happens: sleep, find, not come back, talk, say · To what, where: place, me, warrior · 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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sleep | aux |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 find | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sleep | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sleep | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 talked | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 talked | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 talked | aux |
| 20 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 said | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 manitou | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 manitou | det |
| 23 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 talked | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 talked | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 warrior | det |
| 28 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | may | You | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | can | you | a place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not come back | infinitive | You not said here | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | talk | present · perfect | you | to a manitou | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to manitou=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | You not said here | the warrior | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent warrior=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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