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title: The moon maiden said: “You are going back to sickness, to cold, and… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon maiden said: “You are going back to sickness, to cold, and to war, but you belong to me and must never take a wife from your people. Who acts: moon maiden, You. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, with 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 40

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The moon maiden said: “You are going back to sickness, to cold, and to war, but you belong to me and must never take a wife from your people.

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**Who acts:** moon maiden, You · **What happens:** say, go back, belong, not take · **To what, where:** moon maiden, wife · **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 (moon maiden, You), 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:pg73136:67:40
# text = The moon maiden said: “You are going back to sickness, to cold, and to war, but you belong to me and must never take a wife from your people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | the moon maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go back** *in a quote* | present · progressive | You |  |  |  |  | to sickness *result*; to war | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sickness=Result |
| 3 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | you |  | the moon maiden *= maiden* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | must | you *not said here* | a wife |  |  |  | from your people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme from people=Initial\_Location |

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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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