Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 79

He stood up and ran, but he did not throw one string over the elk head, nor over the camass root, nor over the rock like a salmon.

Who acts: sun · What happens: stand up, run, not throw · To what, where: one string, elk head

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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stood	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 throw	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 throw	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 throw	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 throw	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 throw	advmod
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	parataxis
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 string	nummod
13	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 head	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 head	det
16	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 head	compound
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 root	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 root	cc
20	over	over	ADP	_	23 root	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 root	det
22	camass	camass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 root	compound
23	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rock	punct
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 rock	cc
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 rock	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rock	det
28	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 salmon	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 salmon	det
31	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rock	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	sun			the camass root parataxis; the rock like a salmon parataxis	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	sun not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not throw	past · do-support	sun	one string	the elk head		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent string=Theme over head=Destination

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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The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 79