The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 83
As they came up, he struck each on the head with a club which he carried, and killed them.
Who acts: birds, Scarface · What happens: come up, strike, carry, kill · To what, where: each, club, birds
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 (birds, Scarface), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 struck | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 club | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 club | det |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 carried | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 club | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 killed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | birds = bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | Scarface | each | on the head with a club | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent each=Instrument on head=Patient | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Scarface | a club | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | Scarface not said here | birds = bird | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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