Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 13

Her husband was like two men; he helped drive the Ojibways back to their own fishing grounds.

Who acts: husband, skin, two men · What happens: be, help, drive back · To what, where: two men, Ojibways, own fishing grounds

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, skin, two men), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 men	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 helped	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 helped	nsubj
9	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 men	acl:relcl
10	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helped	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Ojibways	det
12	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drive	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	10 drive	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 grounds	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grounds	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grounds	amod
17	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grounds	compound
18	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 drive	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	fishing's husband			like two men	tree rules
2	help	past	skin	two men not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	drive back	infinitive	two men not said here	the Ojibways	Ojibways's own fishing grounds		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ojibway=Theme to grounds=Trajectory

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, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 13