Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 14

They had a long talk, and the rabbit invited him to come to his heap of little dry bushes and eat dinner with him.

Who acts: woods, rabbit, marten · What happens: have, invite, come, eat · To what, where: long talk, marten, heap, dinner

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, rabbit, marten), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 talk	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 talk	amod
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 invited	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 invited	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rabbit	det
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 invited	nsubj
10	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 invited	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 invited	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 heap	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heap	nmod:poss
16	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 bushes	case
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bushes	amod
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bushes	amod
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heap	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	woods = wood	a long talk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient
2	invite	past	the rabbit	marten			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	marten not said here		marten's heap of little dry bushes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heap=Initial_Location
4	eat	present	woods = wood not said here	dinner		with marten	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 14