The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 24
She gave him the things he asked for, and he left the lodge and started to go to a butte not far from the camp.
Who acts: grandmother, person · What happens: give, ask, leave, start, go · To what, where: things, person, lodge, 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 (grandmother, person), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 asked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lodge | det |
| 14 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 started | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 butte | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 butte | det |
| 21 | butte | butte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 go | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 camp | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 camp | det |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 far | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | grandmother | the things | person | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | person | the things not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | person | the lodge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start | past | person not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | person not said here | a butte | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to butte=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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