The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 23
For several days the little family travelled eastward along the valley of the evergrowing stream, but found no buffalo.
Who acts: little family · What happens: travel, find · To what, where: valley, buffalo
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 (little family), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 travelled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 family | amod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 travelled | nsubj |
| 7 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 7 travelled | advmod |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valley | det |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 travelled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stream | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 14 | evergrowing | evergrowing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stream | amod |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 valley | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 travelled | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 buffalo | det |
| 20 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | the little family | the valley of the evergrowing stream | day | eastward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along valley=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | find | past | the little family not said here | no buffalo | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Topic |
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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