Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 61
Four more otters came and sat at the south of him.
Who acts: Four more otters · What happens: come, sit · To what, where: south
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 (Four more otters), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 otters | nummod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 otters | amod |
| 3 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sat | cc |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 south | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 south | det |
| 9 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 south | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Four more otters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | Four more otters not said here | the south of tamanous | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at south=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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