Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 24
The women called to her to come back, but she pushed away faster toward the falls.
Who acts: women, wife · What happens: call, come back, push away · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (women, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pushed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pushed | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pushed | nsubj |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 pushed | advmod |
| 14 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 pushed | xcomp |
| 15 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 17 falls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 falls | det |
| 17 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 faster | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the women | wife | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come back | to-infinitive | the women not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push away | past | wife | away, fast property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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