Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 93

His body was like a leaf, as the winds blew him and tossed him from one rock to another.

Who acts: body, winds · What happens: be, blow, toss · To what, where: water, one rock

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 (body, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaf	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leaf	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 leaf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blew	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 blew	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winds	det
10	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blew	nsubj
11	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leaf	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blew	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tossed	cc
14	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blew	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tossed	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 rock	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 rock	nummod
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tossed	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 rock	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leaf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	water's body			like a leaf	tree rules
2	blow	past	the winds	water			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	toss	past	the winds not said here	water	one rock to another		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product from rock=Material

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 93