Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 28

His own tamanous came to him while he waited; the white elk talked to the hunter’s spirit.

Who acts: own tamanous, tamanous, white elk · What happens: come, wait, talk · To what, where: Mount

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 (own tamanous, tamanous, white elk), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tamanous	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tamanous	amod
3	tamanous	tamanous	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 waited	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 waited	nsubj
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 talked	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elk	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 elk	amod
13	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 talked	nsubj
14	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 spirit	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hunter	det
17	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spirit	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 hunter	case
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talked	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	tamanous's own tamanous	Mount		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	wait	past	tamanous			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	past	the white elk		to the hunter's spirit	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to spirit=Co-Agent

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 28