Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 67
These were all the guards for the place where the Great Tamanous kept his hiaqua.
Who acts: These, Great Tamanous · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: guards, hiaqua
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 (These, Great 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 guards | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guards | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 guards | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guards | det |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guards | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 kept | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tamanous | det |
| 11 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Tamanous | amod |
| 12 | Tamanous | Tamanous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | nsubj |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hiaqua | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hiaqua | hiaqua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guards | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | all guards | for the place | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | past | the Great Tamanous | tamanous's hiaqua | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiaqua=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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