Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 34

It struck a little child, who fell down and was carried into her father’s wigwam.

Who acts: sky, little child · What happens: strike, fall down, carry · To what, where: little child, wigwam

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, little child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 child	acl:relcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 fell	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 carried	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 carried	aux:pass
12	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fell	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 wigwam	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wigwam	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 father	case
17	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	sky	a little child			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent child=Instrument
2	fall down	past	a little child			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry	past · passive	a little child not said here		maiden's father's wigwam		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»

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, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 34