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title: “I will not fast; let me have my bow and arrows and I will hunt for… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will not fast; let me have my bow and arrows and I will hunt for you,” said the boy. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 5

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“I will not fast; let me have my bow and arrows and I will hunt for you,” said the boy.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** let, have, hunt, say · **To what, where:** boy, bow · **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 (boy), 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:pg73136:67:5
# text = “I will not fast; let me have my bow and arrows and I will hunt for you,” said the boy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | future |  | the boy *= boy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | the boy *= boy* *not said here* | my bow and arrows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |
| 3 | **hunt** *in a quote* | future | the boy *= boy* |  |  |  |  | for you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for you=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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