Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 100

He threw away every string of hiaqua; then his body dropped on the ground on the side of the mountain, and he went to sleep.

Who acts: water, body · What happens: throw away, drop, go · To what, where: string, ground, sleep

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 (water, body), 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	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 threw	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 string	det
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 hiaqua	case
7	hiaqua	hiaqua	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 string	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 dropped	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	nsubj
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mountain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mountain	det
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 side	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 sleep	case
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past	water	every string of hiaqua			away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
2	drop	past	water's body		the ground	then	on the side of the mountain	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination on side=Initial_Location
3	go	past	water		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 100