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title: One day he said: “I will go back to my own country; there my arrows… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he said: “I will go back to my own country; there my arrows will bring my meat to me, and no one will need to be sick.” Who acts: chief, arrows, one. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, with its dependen
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 39

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One day he said: “I will go back to my own country; there my arrows will bring my meat to me, and no one will need to be sick.”

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**Who acts:** chief, arrows, one · **What happens:** say, go back, bring, need, be · **To what, where:** meat, chief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (chief, arrows, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:67:39
# text = One day he said: “I will go back to my own country; there my arrows will bring my meat to me, and no one will need to be sick.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | chief |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go back** *in a quote* | future | chief |  |  |  |  | to my own country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | my arrows | my meat | chief | there |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to i=Destination |
| 4 | **need** *in a quote* | future | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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