Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 96

The night was two days long; he broke one string and threw it away to the winds.

Who acts: night, water · What happens: be, break, throw away · To what, where: one string, hiaqua, winds

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 (night, water), 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 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 long	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 broke	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 broke	nsubj
9	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	parataxis
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 string	nummod
11	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 broke	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 broke	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 threw	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 winds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 winds	det
18	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 threw	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the night			day	long property	tree rules
2	break	past	water	one string				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Patient
3	throw away	past	water not said here	hiaqua	the winds		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wind=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 96