Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 23

I know there are no berries, but they could go on the long trail and find some.”

Who acts: I, berries · What happens: know, be, go, find · To what, where: long trail, 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 (I, berries), 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	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 berries	det
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 trail	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trail	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trail	amod
15	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 find	cc
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 find	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	does	present	no berries		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	could	berries = berry		the long trail	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trail=Location
4	find	infinitive	berries = berry not said here	some		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic

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 23