The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 44
There were only rivers, with a few bushes upon their banks.
Who acts: rivers · What happens: be
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 (rivers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 rivers | advmod |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bushes | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bushes | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bushes | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bushes | amod |
| 9 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 banks | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 banks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bushes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | rivers | there | a few bushes upon bushes's banks nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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