Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 7
He had very many strings of shell money; the Siwash people call it hiaqua.
Who acts: fish, Siwash people · What happens: have, call · To what, where: many strings, money · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fish, Siwash people), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strings | amod |
| 5 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 money | compound |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strings | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 call | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | Siwash | Siwash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 people | compound |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | nsubj |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 call | obj |
| 15 | hiaqua | hiaqua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 call | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | fish | many strings of shell money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | present | the Siwash people | money | hiaqua xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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