The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 161
They went into the village in the daytime, and took many horses and started away with them, riding hard.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: go, take, start away, ride · To what, where: village, many horses
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 daytime | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daytime | det |
| 8 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horses | amod |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 started | cc |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 started | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 started | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 riding | punct |
| 20 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 started | advcl |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 riding | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | brothers = brother | the village | in the daytime | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | many horses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | |||||
| 3 | start away | past | with brothers = brother; away property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality | |||||
| 4 | ride | gerund | hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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