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title: Ampata put her two children into a canoe, and taking the paddle got… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Ampata put her two children into a canoe, and taking the paddle got in herself and pushed far out into the river. Who acts: Ampata, taking. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 23

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Ampata put her two children into a canoe, and taking the paddle got in herself and pushed far out into the river.

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**Who acts:** Ampata, taking · **What happens:** put, take, get, push · **To what, where:** two children, canoe, paddle, river

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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, taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:46:23
# text = Ampata put her two children into a canoe, and taking the paddle got in herself and pushed far out into the river.
1	Ampata	Ampata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	paddle	paddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Ampata |  | wife's two children | a canoe |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=Goal |
| 2 | **take** | gerund |  | the paddle |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | taking |  |  |  |  | in wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **push** | past | taking *not said here* |  |  | the river |  | out *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into river=Destination |

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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.

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**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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