The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 100
Although he had appeared rather strangely, and, like the Thunder Maker, had said he came from a far country, there was nothing that seemed either odd or mysterious about Plover Call’s new husband.
Who acts: Maker, nothing · What happens: appear, say, come, be, seem · To what, where: far country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maker, nothing), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 appeared | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | aux |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 strangely | advmod |
| 6 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 4 appeared | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 Maker | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Maker | det |
| 12 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Maker | compound |
| 13 | Maker | Maker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Maker | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | aux |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 21 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | parataxis |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 was | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 29 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 30 odd | cc:preconj |
| 30 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 mysterious | cc |
| 32 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 odd | conj |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 38 husband | case |
| 34 | Plover | Plover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Call | compound |
| 35 | Call | Call | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 husband | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Call | case |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 husband | amod |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mysterious | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past · perfect | Maker | strangely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Maker not said here | like the Thunder Maker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Maker | a far country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | odd property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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