Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water First Came to the World, sentence 26
A young caribou said that he would get the fire from the old chief’s teepee.
Who acts: young caribou, caribou · What happens: say, get · To what, where: fire, teepee · 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 (young caribou, caribou), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 caribou | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caribou | amod |
| 3 | caribou | caribou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 teepee | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chief | amod |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 16 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a young caribou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | would | caribou | the fire | the old chief's teepee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from teepee=Source |
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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