Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 81

He did not offer them one string, not one shell; he forgot his promise to the Great Tamanous.

Who acts: sun · What happens: not offer, forget, promise · To what, where: strings, promise

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	4 offer	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offer	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 offer	advmod
4	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offer	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 string	nummod
7	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offer	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shell	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 shell	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 shell	nummod
11	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 string	appos
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 forgot	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forgot	nsubj
14	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offer	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 promise	nmod:poss
16	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forgot	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 Tamanous	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Tamanous	det
19	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Tamanous	amod
20	Tamanous	Tamanous	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 promise	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not offer	past · do-support	sun	strings = string	one string obj	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal string=Theme
2	forget	past	sun	sun's promise	to the Great Tamanous	tree rules
3	promise		sun		to the Great Tamanous	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 81