Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 56
The hunter dropped his pack of deerskin on the ground before the elk.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: drop · To what, where: pack, ground
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pack | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 deerskin | case |
| 7 | deerskin | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pack | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 elk | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elk | det |
| 13 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dropped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the hunter | tamanous's pack of deerskin | the ground | before the elk | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent pack=Theme on ground=Destination before elk=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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