Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 88

He had his hands on his money and did not lose one string.

Who acts: tamanous · What happens: have, not lose · To what, where: hands, money, one string

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 (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	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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 money	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lose	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lose	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lose	advmod
11	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 string	nummod
13	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lose	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	tamanous	tamanous's hands		tamanous's money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	not lose	past · do-support	tamanous not said here	one string					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Eventuality

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 88