Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 36
You will not feed her with the elk meat you will get to-day.
Who acts: You · What happens: not feed, get · To what, where: home, elk meat
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 feed | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feed | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 feed | advmod |
| 4 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feed | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 meat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meat | det |
| 8 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meat | compound |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 meat | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feed | future | You | home | with the elk meat | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | get | future | you | the elk meat not said here | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus |
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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