Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 10

He was rich; but when he waited in the trees in the forest for the elk or the deer to come that he might shoot them, he was always counting the shells on these strings.

Who acts: fish · What happens: be, wait, come, shoot, count · To what, where: trees, strings, shells

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rich	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	cop
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 waited	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 waited	cc
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 waited	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 waited	nsubj
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waited	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waited	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 elk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 elk	det
17	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waited	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 deer	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 deer	det
20	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 elk	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 waited	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 shoot	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shoot	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 shoot	aux
26	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shoot	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 counting	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 counting	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 counting	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 counting	advmod
32	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 waited	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shells	det
34	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 counting	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 strings	case
36	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 strings	det
37	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 counting	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	fish			rich property	tree rules
2	wait	past	fish		the trees	in the forest; for the elk or the deer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
3	come	to-infinitive	fish not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shoot	might	fish	strings = string			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	count	past · progressive	fish	the shells	this strings	always property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme

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, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 10