Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 23
Ampata put her two children into a canoe, and taking the paddle got in herself and pushed far out into the river.
Who acts: Ampata, taking · What happens: put, take, get, push · To what, where: two children, canoe, paddle, river
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 (Ampata, taking), 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 | Ampata | Ampata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 children | nummod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 canoe | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 canoe | det |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 got | csubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 paddle | det |
| 13 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 got | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pushed | cc |
| 18 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 out | advmod |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 pushed | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pushed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Ampata | wife's two children | a canoe | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=Goal | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | the paddle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past | taking | in wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | push | past | taking not said here | the river | out property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into river=Destination |
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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