Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 17
This was the home of the Great Tamanous, who puts only good thoughts into the hearts of all people; when the hunter sat long in the tree and looked at the mountain he was ashamed in his heart.
Who acts: This, home, hunter, mountain · What happens: be, put, sit, look · To what, where: home, good thoughts, hearts, tree, mountain, heart
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 (This, home, hunter, mountain), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 home | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 home | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 home | det |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Tamanous | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tamanous | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Tamanous | amod |
| 8 | Tamanous | Tamanous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 home | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 puts | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 puts | nsubj |
| 11 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 home | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 thoughts | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 puts | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hearts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearts | det |
| 17 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 puts | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hearts | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 sat | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hunter | det |
| 24 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 puts | parataxis |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 sat | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 looked | cc |
| 31 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sat | conj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 mountain | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mountain | det |
| 34 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 looked | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ashamed | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 ashamed | cop |
| 37 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 heart | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heart | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ashamed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 home | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the home | of the Great Tamanous | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | present | the home | good thoughts | the hearts of all people | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thought=Goal | |||
| 3 | sit | past | the hunter | the tree | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | |||
| 4 | look | past | the hunter not said here | at the mountain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mountain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | mountain | the mountain not said here | mountain's heart | ashamed property | 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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