Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 18
The Great Tamanous, who is the Good Great Spirit, seemed to ask him, “Where did you get it, that last string of hiaqua?”
Who acts: Great Tamanous, tamanous · What happens: be, seem, ask, get · To what, where: Good Great Spirit, tamanous, Spirit · 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 (Great Tamanous, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tamanous | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tamanous | amod |
| 3 | Tamanous | Tamanous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spirit | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Spirit | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Spirit | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Spirit | det |
| 8 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Spirit | amod |
| 9 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Spirit | amod |
| 10 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tamanous | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tamanous | punct |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 18 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 get | advmod |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 string | punct |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 string | det |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 string | amod |
| 26 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hiaqua | case |
| 28 | hiaqua | hiaqua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 string | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Great Tamanous | the Good Great Spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the Great Tamanous | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the Great Tamanous not said here | tamanous | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past · do-support | tamanous | Spirit | that last string of hiaqua obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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