The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 53
The next day she and her mother began to make a new lodge, and as soon as it was finished, put up and stored with robes and clothing, food and other things, the two were married.
Who acts: daughter, other things · What happens: begin, make, finish, put up, store, marry · To what, where: new lodge, seat, two
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 (daughter, other things), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mother | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 she | conj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lodge | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lodge | amod |
| 13 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finished | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 finished | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 finished | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 finished | aux:pass |
| 21 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 began | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 finished | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 put | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stored | cc |
| 26 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 finished | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 robes | case |
| 28 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stored | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 clothing | cc |
| 30 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 robes | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 food | punct |
| 32 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 robes | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 things | cc |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 things | amod |
| 35 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 food | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 married | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 two | det |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 married | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 married | aux:pass |
| 40 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 things | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | daughter | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | a new lodge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lodge=Product | ||||
| 3 | finish | past · passive | seat | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | put up | infinitive | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | store | participle | with robes and clothing and food and other things | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | marry | past · passive | other things not said here | the two | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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