Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 46

He took many deerskins from his tent, and when it was very dark he went away.

Who acts: tamanous, it · What happens: take, be, go away · To what, where: many deerskins, tent

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 (tamanous, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deerskins	amod
4	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 tent	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tent	nmod:poss
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dark	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 dark	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dark	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 dark	advmod
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	ccomp
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	tamanous	many deerskins	tamanous's tent		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent deerskin=Theme from tent=Initial_Location
2	is	past	it			dark property	tree rules
3	go away	past	tamanous			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 46