Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 9

The squaw, with her papoose and her boys, was soon far away from the river bank; but during the hot summer, which was soon upon them, the same band returned to the river they had left.

Who acts: squaw, river bank, boys · What happens: be, return, leave · To what, where: river bank, same band, river

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squaw, river bank, boys), 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 squaw	det
2	squaw	squaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bank	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 papoose	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 papoose	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 papoose	nmod:poss
6	papoose	papoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squaw	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boys	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boys	nmod:poss
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 squaw	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 squaw	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bank	cop
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 away	advmod
14	away	away	ADV	_	18 bank	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 bank	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bank	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bank	compound
18	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 them	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 them	cc
21	during	during	ADP	_	24 summer	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 summer	det
23	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 summer	amod
24	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 them	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 them	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 them	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 them	cop
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 them	advmod
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bank	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 band	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 band	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 band	amod
34	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 them	appos
35	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 band	acl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 river	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 river	det
38	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 returned	obl
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 left	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 left	aux
41	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 river	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 bank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the squaw and squaw's papoose and squaw's boys		the river bank		away property	tree rules
2	is	past	the river bank			summer	upon boys = boy; the same band appos; soon property	tree rules
3	return	participle		the same band not said here			to the river result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result
4	leave	past · perfect	boys = boy	the river not said here				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 9