Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 72
He lifted up a piece of the rock and saw a great cave full of shell money, full of hiaqua.
Who acts: sun · What happens: lift up, see · To what, where: piece, great cave
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 (sun), 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 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cave | amod |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cave | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 money | case |
| 16 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 money | compound |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 full | punct |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 money | amod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hiaqua | case |
| 21 | hiaqua | hiaqua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | sun | a piece of the rock | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sun not said here | a great cave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus |
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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