The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 5
Hardy and warmly furred as they were they feared the deep snow and the cold of the mountain country.
Who acts: herds · What happens: fur, be
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 (herds), 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 | Hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 furred | cc |
| 3 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 4 furred | advmod |
| 4 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Hardy | conj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 feared | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feared | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 feared | cop |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feared | nsubj |
| 9 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furred | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snow | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 snow | amod |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feared | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cold | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cold | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snow | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 country | compound |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cold | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hardy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fur | participle | warmly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | herds = herd | the deep snow and the cold of the mountain country obj; fear property | tree rules |
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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