Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 4

A brave, if he lay down on it and put out his hands, would put his hands on nothing.

Who acts: Winniwissi · What happens: lie down, put out, put · To what, where: rock, hands, nothing

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winniwissi), 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	2 brave	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 lay	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brave	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 put	aux
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 nothing	case
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 put	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Winniwissi		rock	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
2	put out	infinitive	Winniwissi not said here	Winniwissi's hands			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
3	put	would	Winniwissi not said here	Winniwissi's hands	nothing		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on nothing=Destination

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, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 4