The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 9
There she met a boy, well known through the camp, because of a great scar on his cheek, which made him very ugly.
Who acts: chief, great scar · What happens: meet, know, make · To what, where: boy, camp
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 (chief, great scar), 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 | 3 met | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
| 7 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 known | discourse |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 met | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 camp | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camp | det |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scar | punct |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 scar | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 because | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scar | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scar | amod |
| 17 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 cheek | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scar | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 scar | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 ugly | advmod |
| 26 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 made | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | chief | a boy | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | know | participle | chief not said here | the camp | a great scar on boy's cheek parataxis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | make | past | a great scar on boy's cheek | boy | ugly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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