Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 101
When his eyes came open he was hungry; he dug some camass root, and made a pipe and smoked.
Who acts: eyes, water · What happens: come, be, dig, make, smoke · To what, where: camass root, pipe
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 (eyes, water), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dug | advcl |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hungry | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | cop |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dug | nsubj |
| 11 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 root | det |
| 13 | camass | camass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 root | compound |
| 14 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dug | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dug | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pipe | det |
| 19 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 smoked | cc |
| 21 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | water's eyes | open property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | water | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dig | past | water | some camass root | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | a pipe | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pipe=Product | |||||
| 5 | smoke | past | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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