Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 125

He told them not to forget the Great Tamanous whose home is on the white mountain.

Who acts: water, Great Tamanous · What happens: tell, not forget, be · To what, where: squaws, white mountain · 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 (water, Great Tamanous), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 forget	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 forget	mark
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tamanous	det
8	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Tamanous	amod
9	Tamanous	Tamanous	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mountain	nsubj
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 home	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tamanous	appos
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mountain	cop
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 mountain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mountain	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mountain	amod
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forget	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	water	squaws = squaw		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not forget not said to happen	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	is	present	the Great Tamanous		the white mountain	tree rules

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 125

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 125