The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 143
The blue flame and stifling smoke no longer rolled from his person.
What happens: stifle, roll · To what, where: blue flame
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flame | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flame | amod |
| 3 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 smoke | cc |
| 5 | stifling | stifle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 smoke | amod |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flame | conj |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 rolled | advmod |
| 9 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 person | nmod:poss |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rolled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stifle | gerund | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | roll | participle · passive | the blue flame and stifling smoke | from Maker's person; long property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from person=Trajectory |
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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