Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 21

I know they are starving, but they could see; they did not have to take the meat.

Who acts: I, lips · What happens: know, starve, see, not have, take · To what, where: meat · 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 (I, lips), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 starving	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	aux
5	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 know	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 have	advmod
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 meat	det
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	starve	present · progressive	lips = lip		tree rules
3	see	could	lips = lip		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not have	past · do-support	lips = lip		tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	lips = lip not said here	the meat	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 21