Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 5
There lived a great Siwash hunter in the land in the west near the great river full of salmon, where it comes into the sea.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: live, come · To what, where: great Siwash hunter, land, sea
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | expl |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hunter | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hunter | amod |
| 5 | Siwash | Siwash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hunter | compound |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 west | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 west | det |
| 12 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 river | amod |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 west | nmod |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 river | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 salmon | case |
| 19 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 comes | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 comes | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 river | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comes | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a great Siwash hunter | the land; there | in the west near the great river | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hunter=Location | |||
| 2 | come | present | hunter | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location |
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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