The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 27
At the edge of one of these groves the dogs were unpacked and the lodge put up where it was protected from the wind.
Who acts: groves, lodge · What happens: unpack, put up, protect · To what, where: dogs, river, edge
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 (groves, lodge), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 edge | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 edge | det |
| 3 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 edge | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 groves | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 groves | det |
| 8 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dogs | det |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 unpacked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 unpacked | aux:pass |
| 12 | unpacked | unpack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 groves | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lodge | det |
| 15 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 unpacked | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 protected | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 protected | aux:pass |
| 21 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 put | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 wind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 protected | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 edge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unpack | past · passive | this groves not said here | the dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put up | past | the lodge | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | protect | past · passive | river | from the wind | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from wind=Theme |
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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