Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 57

He opened it and took out a great elk-horn pick, and began to dig in the sand.

Who acts: tamanous · What happens: open, take out, begin, dig · To what, where: pack, great horn pick, sand

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), 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 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 took	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pick	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pick	amod
9	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horn	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 elk	punct
11	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pick	compound
12	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 dig	mark
17	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sand	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sand	det
20	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dig	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	open	past	tamanous	pack		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	take out	past	tamanous not said here	a great horn pick		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pick=Theme
3	begin	past	tamanous not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dig	to-infinitive	tamanous not said here		the sand	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 57