The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 1
A great many winters ago the Piegans were camped near a small creek.
What happens: camp · To what, where: great many winters, small creek
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Medicine Lodge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 winters | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winters | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winters | amod |
| 4 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 camped | nsubj |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 winters | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Piegans | det |
| 7 | Piegans | Piegan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 winters | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 camped | aux:pass |
| 9 | camped | camp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 creek | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 creek | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creek | amod |
| 13 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 camped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 camped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | camp | past · passive | a great many winters the Piegans | a small creek | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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