Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 23

He was tired and he said: “You may have all the light you want.”

Who acts: chief, You · What happens: be, say, have, want · To what, where: light · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 light	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 light	det
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 light	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	chief		tired property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	chief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	may	You	all light		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
4	want in a quote	present	you	all light not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme

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, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 23