Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 14
It was like an elk, and it would talk with him.
Who acts: forest · What happens: be, talk
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 (forest), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 elk | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 elk | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 elk | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 elk | det |
| 5 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talk | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 talk | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 talk | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 talk | aux |
| 10 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 elk | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 talk | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 elk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | forest | like a elk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | would | forest | with fish | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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