Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 89
The water helped the winds to throw him back to the great rock on the top of the mountain.
Who acts: water, winds · What happens: help, throw back · To what, where: winds, water, top
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 (water, winds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 winds | det |
| 5 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helped | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 throw | mark |
| 7 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helped | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 throw | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 throw | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rock | amod |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throw | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | the water | the winds | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wind=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw back | to-infinitive | the winds not said here | water | the top of the mountain | to the great rock | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to rock=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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