The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 84
After some time Sun Dog returned, and the young men took the birds home to the lodge.
Who acts: Sun, young men · What happens: return, take · To what, where: birds, lodge
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 (Sun, young men), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sun | flat |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lodge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lodge | det |
| 18 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Sun | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the young men | the birds | the lodge | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to lodge=Destination |
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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