The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Opening, sentence 7

The Stories and the Story-Tellers vii The Bluejay Stories ix The Punishment of the Stingy 3 Bluejay, the Imitator 19 Bluejay Visits the Ghosts 35 The Girl Who Was the Ring 49 The First Corn 65 The Star Boy 75 The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine 87 The First Medicine Lodge 117 Thunder Maker and Cold Maker 127 The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk 143 Ragged Head 159 Nothing Child 167 Shield Quiver’s Wife 189 The Beaver Stick 201 Little Friend Coyote 219

Who acts: Stories, Stories ix, Girl · What happens: ix, visit, be · To what, where: Ghosts, 49

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stories, Stories ix, Girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Stories	det
2	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ix	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 vii	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vii	det
5	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 vii	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Story	punct
7	Tellers	teller	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vii	compound
8	vii	vii	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stories	conj
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Stories	det
10	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Stories	compound
11	Stories	Story	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 ix	compound
12	ix	ix	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Visits	nsubj
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Punishment	det
14	Punishment	Punishment	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ix	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 Bluejay	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Bluejay	det
17	Stingy	stingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Bluejay	amod
18	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 Bluejay	nummod
19	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Punishment	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Imitator	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Imitator	det
22	Imitator	imitator	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Punishment	appos
23	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 Imitator	flat
24	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 19	flat
25	Visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Ghosts	det
27	Ghosts	Ghost	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 Visits	obj
28	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 Ghosts	flat
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Girl	det
30	Girl	Girl	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 49	nsubj
31	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 49	nsubj
32	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 49	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Ring	det
34	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 49	nmod:unmarked
35	49	49	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 Visits	parataxis
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Corn	det
37	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 Corn	amod
38	Corn	Corn	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 49	nmod:unmarked
39	65	65	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 Corn	flat
40	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Boy	det
41	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Boy	compound
42	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	79 Wife	nmod:poss
43	75	75	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	42 Boy	flat
44	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Bear	det
45	Grizzly	Grizzly	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Bear	compound
46	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Lodge	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 Bear	case
48	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Lodge	nsubj
49	87	87	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 Medicine	flat
50	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Lodge	det
51	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	52 Medicine	amod
52	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Lodge	compound
53	Lodge	Lodge	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Boy	nmod
54	117	117	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	42 Boy	list
55	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Maker	compound
56	Maker	Maker	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 117	nmod:unmarked
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 Maker	cc
58	Cold	Cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Maker	amod
59	Maker	Maker	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Maker	conj
60	127	127	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	59 Maker	flat
61	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Blindness	det
62	Blindness	Blindness	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Maker	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	68 ōk	case
64	Pi	Pi	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 ōk	compound
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 Pi	punct
66	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 ōk	compound
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 waṕ	punct
68	ōk	ōk	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 Blindness	nmod
69	143	143	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	71 Head	nummod
70	Ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 Head	amod
71	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 ōk	appos
72	159	159	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	71 Head	flat
73	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 Blindness	conj
74	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 Nothing	flat
75	167	167	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	54 117	list
76	Shield	Shield	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Boy	appos
77	Quiver	Quiver	PROPN	Number=Sing	76 Shield	flat
78	’s	's	PART	_	42 Boy	case
79	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Corn	appos
80	189	189	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	79 Wife	flat
81	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	83 Stick	det
82	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	83 Stick	compound
83	Stick	Stick	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Corn	conj
84	201	201	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	83 Stick	list
85	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	86 Friend	amod
86	Friend	Friend	PROPN	Number=Sing	84 201	nmod:unmarked
87	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	86 Friend	flat
88	219	219	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	83 Stick	list

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ix		the Stories and the Story Tellers vii		the Punishment of the Stingy 3 Bluejay appos	tree rules
2	visit	present	Stories ix	the Ghosts		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Co-Agent
3	is a	past	the Girl	49	the Ring nmod:unmarked; the First Corn and the Beaver Stick nmod:unmarked; Who nsubj	tree rules

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: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Opening, sentence 7