Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 27

She said: “I will go and find our children; then I will come back to the trail and find my husband.”

Who acts: wife · What happens: say, go, find, come back · To what, where: children, trail, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 find	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 trail	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trail	det
20	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 find	cc
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	future	wife				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here	our children			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
4	come back in a quote	future	wife		the trail	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to trail=Initial_Location
5	find in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here	my husband			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 27