Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 19

And he had to say: “I tore some of the shells from the faces of helpless squaws; from their noses and from their lips.

Who acts: tamanous · What happens: have, say, tore · To what, where: noses, some · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 tore	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 tore	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tore	nsubj
9	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 tore	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 shells	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shells	det
13	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 some	nmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 faces	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 faces	det
16	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shells	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 squaws	case
18	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 squaws	amod
19	squaws	squaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 faces	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 noses	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 noses	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 noses	nmod:poss
23	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lips	cc
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 lips	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lips	nmod:poss
27	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 noses	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	tamanous		squaws's noses and noses's lips	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	tamanous not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tore in a quote	past	tamanous	some of the shells from the faces of helpless squaws		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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 19