Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 39

He told the boy to wish for anything and that he should have it.

Who acts: Menabozho · What happens: tell, wish, have · To what, where: boy, toe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wish	mark
6	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 wish	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wish	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Menabozho		the boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wish not said to happen	to-infinitive				for anything	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for anything=Theme
3	have	should	Menabozho	toe			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 39