The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 64
When it was time for the Sun to come home, Sun Dog hid Scarface and covered him up with robes.
Who acts: pity, Sun Dog · What happens: be, come, hide, cover up · To what, where: time, Scarface
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 (pity, Sun Dog), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 time | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dog | compound |
| 13 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | _ | 14 hid | nsubj |
| 14 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Scarface | scarface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hid | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 covered | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 covered | compound:prt |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 robes | case |
| 21 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pity | time | for the Sun | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Sun Dog not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Sun Dog | Scarface | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarface=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cover up | past | Sun Dog not said here | Scarface | with robes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with robe=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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