The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 37
Strangely enough she was not afraid of him, for he had a kind face, and his blue eyes looked pleasant.
Who acts: Plover, man, blue eyes · What happens: not be, have, look · To what, where: kind face
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 (Plover, man, blue eyes), 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 | Strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Strangely | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 had | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 22 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looked | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Plover | of man; afraid, strangely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man | a kind face | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | man's blue eyes | pleasant property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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