The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 102
He was very kind and gentle, and the girl soon loved him with all her heart.
Who acts: Maker, girl · What happens: be, love · To what, where: Maker
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, girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 kind | advmod |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gentle | cc |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kind | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loved | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 loved | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 loved | advmod |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 heart | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loved | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Maker | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Maker not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | love | past | the girl | Maker | with girl's heart; soon property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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