The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 119
Plover Call shut her eyes, nearly fainting at the dreadful sight, and her heart stood still from fear.
Who acts: Plover, heart · What happens: shut, faint, stand · To what, where: eyes, fear
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 (Plover, heart), 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 | Plover | Plover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | Call | Call | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Plover | flat |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shut | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fainting | punct |
| 7 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 8 fainting | advmod |
| 8 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shut | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sight | det |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sight | amod |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fainting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 fear | case |
| 20 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | Plover | Plover's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | faint | gerund | Plover not said here | at the dreadful sight; nearly property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Plover's heart | fear | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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