Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 43

If the hunter would seek it and obey, he should have enough to satisfy him.

Who acts: hunter, tamanous · What happens: seek, obey, have, satisfy · To what, where: hiaqua, enough, tamanous

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 (hunter, tamanous), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 seek	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunter	det
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seek	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seek	aux
5	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seek	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 obey	cc
8	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seek	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seek	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 have	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 satisfy	mark
15	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 enough	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 satisfy	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seek a condition, not said to happen	would	the hunter	hiaqua	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	obey	present	the hunter not said here		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	should	tamanous	enough	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
4	satisfy	to-infinitive	tamanous not said here	tamanous	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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 43