Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 48

He could not sleep; he could not wait; he saw the sun rise from the top of the mountain; he had no fear.

Who acts: tamanous, sun · What happens: not sleep, not wait, see, rise, have · To what, where: top, fear

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, sun), 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	4 sleep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wait	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 wait	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wait	advmod
9	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sleep	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rise	nsubj
15	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 top	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 top	det
18	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rise	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mountain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mountain	det
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 top	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 fear	det
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not sleep	could	tamanous			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not wait	could	tamanous			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	tamanous			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	rise	infinitive	the sun		the top of the mountain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from top=Initial_Location
5	have	past	tamanous	no fear		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 48