Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 2
Many moons before the Siwashes used iron or gold or silver a strange thing happened.
Who acts: Many moons, strange thing · What happens: use, happen · To what, where: iron
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 (Many moons, strange thing), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moons | amod |
| 2 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 Siwashes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Siwashes | det |
| 5 | Siwashes | siwash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 moons | nmod |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 gold | cc |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 iron | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 silver | cc |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 iron | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Many moons before the Siwashes | iron or gold or silver | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | a strange thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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