The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 146
They continued to live happily together, and when summer came he went with her and her parents, and joined the great camp of the Blackfeet.
Who acts: hearts, summer, husband · What happens: continue, live, come, go, join · To what, where: great camp
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 (hearts, summer, husband), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 live | mark |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 continued | xcomp |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 parents | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 parents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 her | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 joined | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 joined | cc |
| 21 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 camp | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 camp | amod |
| 24 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 joined | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Blackfeet | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Blackfeet | det |
| 27 | Blackfeet | blackfoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 camp | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | hearts = heart | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | hearts = heart not said here | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | summer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | husband | with Call | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | join | past | hearts = heart not said here | the great camp of the Blackfeet | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient |
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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