Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 6
His arrows gave him much meat; his great canoe and his spear gave him much fish.
Who acts: arrows, great canoe · What happens: give · To what, where: much meat, him, much fish
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 (arrows, great canoe), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 2 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meat | amod |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 canoe | amod |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spear | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 canoe | conj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fish | amod |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | His arrows | much meat | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient meat=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | his great canoe and his spear | much fish | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fish=Theme |
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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