Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 15
He waited at the foot of the great white snow mountain for the elk to come.
Who acts: fish · What happens: wait, come · To what, where: foot
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 | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 foot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foot | det |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountain | amod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountain | amod |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mountain | compound |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 foot | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 elk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 elk | det |
| 14 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 waited | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waited | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | fish | the foot of the great white snow mountain | for the elk | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | fish not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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