Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 94
They did not break a string; they did not take his hiaqua.
Who acts: winds · What happens: not break, not take · To what, where: string, hiaqua
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 break | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 break | advmod |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 string | det |
| 6 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 take | advmod |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 break | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hiaqua | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hiaqua | hiaqua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break | past · do-support | winds = wind | a string | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not take | past · do-support | winds = wind | water's hiaqua | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiaqua=Theme |
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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