The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 90
After shaking hands with the Sun and Moon, the two young men started on their journey.
Who acts: two young men, men · What happens: shake, start, journey · To what, where: hands, journey
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 (two young men, 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 shaking | mark |
| 2 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 started | advcl |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shaking | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hands | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Moon | cc |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sun | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 shaking | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 men | nummod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | the two young men not said here | hands | with the Sun and Moon | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with sun=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | start | past | the two young men | men's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | journey | men = man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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