Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 4

The little family went in the winter with their tribe farther south, and the smoke of their village fires could be seen for many miles.

Who acts: little family, village fires, children · What happens: go, see, smoke, fire · To what, where: smoke

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 (little family, village fires, children), 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	3 family	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tribe	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tribe	nmod:poss
10	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
11	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 tribe	amod
12	south	south	ADV	_	11 farther	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seen	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seen	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 smoke	det
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seen	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 fires	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fires	nmod:poss
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fires	compound
20	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 smoke	nmod
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 miles	case
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 miles	amod
26	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seen	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the little family		winter	with children's tribe	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with tribe=Beneficiary
2	see	could · passive		the smoke of children's village fires		for many miles	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	smoke		children's village fires				nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
4	fire		children = child				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 4