Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 30

She did not answer, and they fell down the same as the two who had come before them.

Who acts: girl, melon, two · What happens: not answer, fall down, come

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, melon, two), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answer	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 answer	advmod
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 fell	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	xcomp
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 two	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 come	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 fell	advcl
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	girl			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall down	past	melon		down, same property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	the two	before melon	who nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location

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, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 30