Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 25

The maiden took the one who came back; but she was missed one day, and they found her at the foot of Leaping Rock with eagle feathers for the Pawnee’s grave.

Who acts: maiden, one, chiefs · What happens: take, come back, miss, find · To what, where: one, maiden, foot

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, one, chiefs), 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 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 missed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 missed	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 missed	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 missed	aux:pass
13	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 missed	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 foot	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 foot	det
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Rock	case
25	Leaping	Leaping	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Rock	compound
26	Rock	Rock	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 foot	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 feathers	case
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feathers	compound
29	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 found	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 grave	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Pawnee	det
32	Pawnee	Pawnee	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 grave	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Pawnee	case
34	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feathers	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the maiden	the one				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	come back	past	the one					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	miss	past · passive		maiden		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	find	past	chiefs = chief	maiden	the foot of Leaping Rock		with eagle feathers for the Pawnee's grave	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at foot=Asset

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, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 25