Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 19

She went to the south with her father when winter came; in the spring she came back to the Falls of Minnehaha with her tribe.

Who acts: wife, winter · What happens: go, come, come back · To what, where: south, Falls

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 (wife, winter), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 south	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 south	det
5	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 spring	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spring	det
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Falls	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Falls	det
21	Falls	Falls	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Minnehaha	case
23	Minnehaha	Minnehaha	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Falls	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 tribe	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tribe	nmod:poss
26	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	wife	the south		with wife's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to south=Initial_Location
2	come	past	winter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come back	past	wife	the Falls of Minnehaha	spring	with wife's tribe	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to falls=Initial_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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 19