The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 56
The fourth day after the young couple were married and had moved into the new lodge, the stranger arose early, and after a hurried meal told Plover Call that he intended to go hunting.
Who acts: stranger, Plover · What happens: marry, move, arise, hurry, tell, call · To what, where: fourth day, new lodge · 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 (stranger, 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 couple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 couple | amod |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moved | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | aux |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 married | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 lodge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lodge | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lodge | amod |
| 16 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arose | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stranger | det |
| 19 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arose | nsubj |
| 20 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | conj |
| 21 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 arose | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 told | cc |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 meal | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 meal | det |
| 26 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 meal | amod |
| 27 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | obl |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arose | conj |
| 29 | Plover | Plover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Call | nsubj |
| 30 | Call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 told | xcomp |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 intended | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 intended | nsubj |
| 33 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 Call | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 intended | xcomp |
| 36 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 go | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the fourth day after the young couple | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | move | past · perfect | the new lodge | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lodge=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | arise | past | the stranger | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurry | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the stranger not said here | after a hurried meal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | call not said to happen | infinitive | Plover | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | intend | past | stranger | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | hunt | gerund | stranger not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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