The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 293
The young men took seats close to the door, which is the most important place in this dance.
Who acts: young men, door · What happens: take, be · To what, where: seats, important place, dance
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 (young men, door), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 place | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 place | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 important | advmod |
| 15 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 dance | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 dance | det |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the young men | seats | close property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the door and the important place | the important place | this dance | 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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