Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 14
They threw their paddles far out into the white water of the rapids.
Who acts: squaws · What happens: throw · To what, where: paddles, white water
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squaws), 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 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 paddles | nmod:poss |
| 4 | paddles | paddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 out | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 threw | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rapids | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rapids | det |
| 13 | rapids | rapid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 water | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | squaws = squaw | squaws's paddles | into the white water of the rapids result; out property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer paddle=Theme into water=Result |
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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