The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 19
He sat for a long time thinking over the cruel words the girl had spoken.
Who acts: person, cruel words · What happens: sit, think, speak · To what, where: cruel words, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (person, cruel words), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 words | det |
| 10 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thinking | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoken | aux |
| 15 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 words | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | person | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | person not said here | the cruel words | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the cruel words not said here | the girl | 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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