The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 105
Scarface shut his eyes, and when he opened them he found himself sitting at the foot of the butte from which he came.
Who acts: Scarface · What happens: shut, open, find, sit, come · To what, where: eyes, Scarface, foot, butte
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: who acts (Scarface), 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 | Scarface | scarface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shut | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 opened | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opened | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shut | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 found | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foot | det |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 butte | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 butte | det |
| 20 | butte | butte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foot | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 came | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 butte | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | Scarface | Scarface's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Scarface | eyes = eye | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Scarface | Scarface | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | Scarface not said here | the foot of the butte | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Scarface | the butte | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_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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