Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 11
He would say to himself: “I shall have more hiaqua than the great chief.
Who acts: fish · What happens: say, have · To what, where: fish, more hiaqua · Speech: someone speaks here
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 say | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 say | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | parataxis |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 hiaqua | amod |
| 12 | hiaqua | hiaqua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 chief | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chief | amod |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hiaqua | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | fish | fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | shall | fish | more hiaqua | than the great chief | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiaqua=Patient |
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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