Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 47

He ran along a little further and fell over the bank into a river, and he swam with the strong current down the stream.

Who acts: Basswood · What happens: run, fall, swim · To what, where: bank

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basswood), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADP	_	6 further	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 further	obl
6	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 ran	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 bank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bank	det
11	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swam	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swam	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swam	nsubj
18	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 current	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 current	det
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 current	amod
22	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swam	obl
23	down	down	ADP	_	25 stream	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stream	det
25	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 current	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Basswood		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	Basswood not said here	the bank	into a river	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over bank=Initial_Location into river=Destination
3	swim	past	Basswood		with the strong current down the stream	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with current=Theme

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, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 47