The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 36
The man turned towards her and lowered his robe from his face, and she saw that he was a stranger—a handsome young man, with light-colored hair and a white face.
Who acts: man, Plover · What happens: turn, lower, see, be, color · To what, where: robe, face, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, Plover), 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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lowered | cc |
| 7 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 robe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowered | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 stranger | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stranger | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stranger | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 man | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 24 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stranger | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hair | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 hair | case |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 colored | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 light | punct |
| 31 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 hair | amod |
| 32 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 man | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 face | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 face | det |
| 35 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 face | amod |
| 36 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 man | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the man | towards Plover | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards she=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | lower | past | the man not said here | man's robe | man's face | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robe=Theme from face=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | Plover | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | man | a stranger | a handsome young man and colored hair and a white face appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | color | participle | light compound | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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