Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 8

They all went back to the north in the summer time, back to the fall of waters in the Great Father of Waters and to the Falls of Minnehaha.

Who acts: strings · What happens: go back

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 (strings), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
13	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fall	det
16	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 waters	case
18	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fall	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Father	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Father	det
21	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Father	amod
22	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 waters	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Waters	case
24	Waters	Water	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 Father	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Falls	cc
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Falls	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Falls	det
28	Falls	Falls	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 Father	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Minnehaha	case
30	Minnehaha	Minnehaha	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Falls	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	strings = string				time	to the north result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to north=Result

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 8