Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 7

She sewed it with strings of sinew saved from the deer whose skin she had carefully tanned.

Who acts: smoke · What happens: sew, save, tan · To what, where: suit, sinew, deer, skin

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 (smoke), 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 sewed	nsubj
2	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sewed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 strings	case
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sewed	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sinew	case
7	sinew	sinew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strings	nmod
8	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sinew	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 deer	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 deer	det
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 skin	nmod:poss
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tanned	nsubj:pass
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tanned	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tanned	aux
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	17 tanned	advmod
17	tanned	tan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 deer	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sewed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sew	past	smoke	suit		with strings of sinew	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with string=Co-Patient
2	save	participle		sinew not said here	the deer		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from deer=Source
3	tan	past · perfect · passive		skin		smoke nsubj:pass; carefully property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 7