The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 14
Yet, though his clothes were poor and his face was ugly, his heart was good, and the cruel taunts of his people often made him very sad.
Who acts: clothes, face, heart, cruel taunts · What happens: be, make, taunt · To what, where: boy, people
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 (clothes, face, heart, cruel taunts), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 17 good | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yet | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 poor | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 poor | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 poor | cop |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 good | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ugly | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ugly | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ugly | cop |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 poor | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 good | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | cop |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 taunts | det |
| 21 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 taunts | amod |
| 22 | taunts | taunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 people | nmod:poss |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taunts | nmod |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 made | advmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obj |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 sad | advmod |
| 30 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 made | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy's clothes | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | boy's face | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | boy's heart | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the cruel taunts of boy's people | boy | often, sad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 5 | taunt | boy's people | nom taunt «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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