Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 54

The first rock was shaped like the head of a salmon; the second was like the good camass root, which all Siwashes eat; the third rock was the same as an elk.

Who acts: second, Siwashes, third rock · What happens: shape, be, eat · To what, where: first rock, good camass root

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 (second, Siwashes, third rock), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaped	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shaped	aux:pass
5	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaped	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 salmon	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 salmon	det
11	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 root	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 second	det
14	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 root	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 root	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	20 root	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 root	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 root	amod
19	camass	camass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 root	compound
20	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaped	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 eat	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 Siwashes	det
24	Siwashes	siwash	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eat	nsubj
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 root	acl:relcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 same	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rock	det
28	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 rock	amod
29	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 same	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 same	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 same	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 root	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 elk	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 elk	det
35	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 same	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shape	past · passive		the first rock	like the head of a salmon	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is	past	the second		like the good camass root	tree rules
3	eat	present	all Siwashes	the good camass root		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	is	past	the third rock		as a elk; same property	tree rules

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 54