Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 5
Here Ampata embroidered the moccasins with colored quills and grasses; these moccasins were for her husband and her children.
Who acts: Ampata, moccasins · What happens: embroider, be · To what, where: moccasins
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, moccasins), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 embroidered | advmod |
| 2 | Ampata | Ampata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 embroidered | nsubj |
| 3 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moccasins | det |
| 5 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 embroidered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 quills | case |
| 7 | colored | colored | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quills | compound |
| 8 | quills | quill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moccasins | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grasses | cc |
| 10 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quills | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 husband | punct |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 moccasins | det |
| 13 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 husband | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 husband | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 husband | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embroidered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 children | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 husband | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embroidered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | past | Ampata | the moccasins | here | with colored quills and grasses | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent moccasin=Destination with quill=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | this moccasins | for smoke's husband and smoke's children; smoke nmod:poss; smoke's children conj | tree rules |
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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