The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 3
One season they had hunted on a little stream in the foot-hills since early spring.
What happens: hunt · To what, where: One season, little stream
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 season | nummod |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hunted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunted | aux |
| 5 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stream | amod |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunted | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hills | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hills | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 foot | punct |
| 14 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stream | nmod |
| 15 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 spring | case |
| 16 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spring | amod |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · perfect · passive | One season | a little stream in the foot hills | spring | people nsubj:pass | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on stream=Location |
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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